Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enterprise is now at the crucial balance," Besso said. He explained that the success of the operation this summer will determine the future of such flights. The Student Council may, he said, adopt the plan in future years...
...erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent him to the Calasanziane Sisters...
...Walking Out." Broad as this statement was, the A.A.U.P. was willing to adopt it as its official position. Then it moved on to debate the cases of eight campuses recommended for censure: the University of California, Ohio State, Rutgers, Temple, Oklahoma, St. Louis University, North Dakota Agricultural College, and Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College. Each school had only ten minutes at the meeting in which to defend itself, and in the end all eight were duly blacklisted. But to some of its members, the A.A.U.P. seemed far from giving the accused campuses the same sort of treatment...
This novel is the work of a high-spirited Hussar officer of 23, caught temporarily between campaigns. It would not be uncharitable to say that its author should adopt some other line of work. This, to the great benefit of history and humanity, is what the author...
...welfare state." Our conception of the welfare state has insisted, of course, that the government assure certain minimum standards of individual economic security. In addition, we have come to broaden the consensus, after some false starts, to include the conviction that the government has a positive responsibility to adopt measures which will promote, insofar as possible, the full employment of the human and physical resources of the country...