Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own hands, the die-hards prepared a parliamentary mousetrap for Paratroop General Jacques Massu, who had pledged his soldierly loyalty to De Gaulle on De Gaulle's visit to Algiers a fortnight ago. By careful prearrangement, a decoy faction among the diehards noisily proposed that the junta adopt a resolution denouncing De Gaulle and all his works. When Massu, as co-president of the junta, protested, the remainder of the diehards introduced a "moderate" counter-resolution. And when the decoy faction grumblingly accepted the second resolution, Massu was convinced that he had achieved a great compromise...
...separation between Harvard and Princeton was terminated in February. Relations between Harvard and Princeton had been severed in 1926, following the Harvard-Princeton football game in Cambridge, which the Tigers won. Charges of dirty playing, a particularly violent issue of the Lampoon, the announcement that Harvard was planning to adopt a rotating schedule policy, and a growing feeling of hatred had brought about this break. The 1931 "accord" signalled the resumption of all contests but football...
This move will probably force the teams to adopt club status in order to remain in intercollegiate competition. If they do this, the H.A.A. will assume none of their expenses, which would then have to be met by the teams' respective alumni organizations...
...unveiled. It is a fantasia right out of the Arabian Nights, and Wright, 88, a self-confessed Arabian Nighter since boyhood, meant it to be that way. "If we are able to understand and interpret our ancestors," Wright intoned, "there is no need to copy them. Nor need Baghdad adopt the materialistic structures called 'modern' now barging in from the West upon the East...
...future of the U.S. economy, Nixon summed up, is the bright promise propounded by the newest Rockefeller report of beefing up the gross national product from $434 billion today to $707 billion in 1967. "It will never be achieved if we adopt a standpat status quo attitude toward our economy. It will never be attained in a socialistic straitjacket...