Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young against the old. The old instinctively want to preserve past ways, but they are losing. Now, in the village assemblies the youngsters speak out against their fathers-often violently. The old, rigid family structure is cracking. Where the young will go, what faith they will finally adopt, I don't know...
...second plan which MIT has used since 1929 involves similar loans which are paid back at a rate of $50 per half year after graduation and pays a continuous 1 percent interest rate on the loan. Which plan Harvard may adopt is still completely undecided and the question brought considerable debate at the Council meeting...
...list of the world's worst-dressed women because "she could put on an exquisite creation by Christian Dior or Jacques Fath and look as if she were wearing a sack of potatoes." Trailing Elsa came sexagenarian Musicomedienne Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy Rose Lee ("Looks better in her G-string...
Undoubtedly if all film directors were to adopt Welles' camera technique, films would become unbearable. Even in "Citizen Kane" the overpowering effects become a little heavy toward the end. If carried to its logical extreme, this sort of thing results in horrors like "Ivan the Terrible." However, as long as "unusual" effects remain just that, they can add immeasurably to the power of a film...
...could not openly reject the plea. "Your message has been received," he wired back. "Our party is very willing to adopt lenient policies." But his heart was not in his terse reply; his heart was with his troops. At week's end, under able Generals Chen Yi and Lin Piao, they were prodding the Nationalists from their last footholds on the Yangtze's north bank. For the first time in the civil war, Red shells whined across the muddy river into the Nationalist southland...