Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coles' effort to adopt the point of view of the people he studies is the effort of a man who concedes he is a "romantic" and who perhaps has a more-than-ordinary admiration for people trying to cope with poverty. Since he began working in the South ten years ago, he has shaped his work around that point of view...
With another loud voice vote, the Faculty voted down a motion to table the rest of SFAC's scheme and went on to adopt...
THERE is a certain way people react to hurricanes and floods. It is the same way New Yorkers approach day-to-day living. You adopt a sort of crisis mentality. You make your difficulties seem much larger, your stamina appear more courageous. It is a marvelous game of competitive purported deprivation when played correctly. The McCarthy volunteer revels...
...them had been attracted by ads offering a free weekend in Indiana. Some, we knew, received daily meal allowances; others, it was rumored, were being paid outright. Often they were still in high school. We derided the tactlessness of Bobby's teeny-boppers. Of course, they tried to adopt our own air of self-sacrifice. It was generally unsuccessful. One giggly girl proudly announced that she and her friends would be spending the night in a church. "God must be on our side," she laughed. Well, if He weren't, you'd buy Him, she was told...
...specific populated enclaves in order to improve theoretically the security of those areas, we would make a de facto partition of the country, similar to what has happened in Laos. It is a defeatist strategy, since the enemy always has the initiative. The only sound reason I know to adopt such a strategy in Viet Nam would be as a prelude to withdrawal from the country...