Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the original Faculty sub-committee which prepared the draft of that proposal, I naturally hoped that the Army would adopt it in toto. For the reasons which I have discussed above, however, I am extremely pleased with the substantial progress which we have made. . . . T. N. Dupuy, Colonel Artillery
...Last Word. The government of India would like the Jaunswaris to adopt monogamy. But teams of social workers who have gone up into the hills have been driven out by village elders. Said one elder indignantly: "They asked us indecent questions." Among the Jaunswaris themselves a reform movement, with all members taking the vow of monogamy, has been organized by a college graduate named Surat Singh. Although his movement is enthusiastically supported by the women, the menfolk are threatening to drive Surat Singh and all his followers into the plains. Now the Indian government has a new idea. Provincial Social...
...Morocco's urgent nationalists and the angry French colons, whose remedy is simple repression. Moderate men on both sides had been ready to compromise, but violence drowned their voices and left the field to extremists. Faure's way out was characteristic of the balancing French politician: to adopt the moderate recommendations of courageous Resident General Gilbert Grandval, while sacrificing Grandval himself to the wolves. At week's end there was prospect of a patched-up compromise. It promised to settle the question of who should be Sultan of Morocco by having no Sultan at all. Much depended...
...acreage-control program. Nor is the price support program keeping the farmer's income up: it has dropped 10% in the past year.* As a result, the Department of Agriculture seemed to have a choice of three courses: 1) apply more and tougher controls on acreage; 2) adopt an entirely different kind of farm program, e.g., a subsidy for the agricultural end product (the old Brannan Plan), or 3) try to improve the market for U.S. farm products overseas...
Getting the Tone. What details? What "other practical matters"? In his press conference last week, Dulles in effect listed three of the broad objectives. The U.S. wants Red China to 1) agree to adopt the U.S. principle of "no recourse to force," 2) order its marauding pilots to stop shooting down peaceful Western planes, and 3) join the U.S. in examining the possibility of ceasefire in the Formosa Strait. Should the parley at the base camp progress smoothly, Dulles might later be prepared to meet Chou Enlai...