Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defending the negative side of resolved: That the United States Should Adopt a Policy of Free Trade, sophomores Robert M. O'Neil and Richard C. Anderson took first-second speaking honors in all seven rounds of debating...
...airmen had already reached the same conclusion. But the Pentagon's soldiers and sailors were still too firmly wedded to the theory of "balanced forces." They gruffly turned Slessor down. Only when air-minded Admiral Arthur Radford became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff did the U.S. adopt the New Look...
...semi-finals and finals the four men argued the affirmative side of the topic: "Resolved: That the United States should adopt a policy of free trade." Their arguments centered around the role of the tariff in straining our foreign relations, although they also stressed that the prosperity of our export industries depends largely upon the ability of other countries to sell...
...with Sir Claude Mulhammer, a financier who yearns to be a potter, taking on as private secretary his illegitimate son, Colby Simpkins-a young man who yearns to be an organist. If Sir Claude's wife, Lady Elizabeth, should take a liking to Colby, Sir Claude means to adopt him. Already part of the household are Lucasta Angel, his illegitimate daughter, and B. (for Barnabas) Kaghan, a foundling whom Lucasta plans to marry. Lady Elizabeth too, in her youth, had an illegitimate son whom she lost all trace of; and being a woman with a flutter-brained, highhanded contempt...
...week, several of Tokyo's most learned radio pundits discussed the latest phenomenon. "The Japanese will probably not discard their underwear as a result of the visit of the Honorable Buttocks-Swinging Actress," said one, "because it is much too cold. But because our people are quick to adopt fads, I'm sure that they will soon start swinging their buttocks...