Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps in order to swim, the News will be forced to adopt a new stroke. To an extent, it has done this already in trying to emphasize feature articles rather than straight news coverage. For example, it is the only publication for the Harvard student community which publishes engagement and wedding announcements...
President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 recommended that the Allies adopt a policy of "patience and alertness" on the question of German reunification, in the final talk of the Godkin Lecture Series last night...
...special meaning. Two and a half years ago Harry Holt flew to Korea, hunted through orphanages, disease-ridden huts and gutters, rounded up Korean babies fathered by American G.I.s and abandoned by their mothers, and took them home. Pushing a special law through Congress permitting them to adopt all eight children (U.S. law permits families to adopt only two), the Holts, with the help of their own six youngsters (now aged 11 to 24), set out to rear the Koreans as their own. As the news of the enterprise spread, they soon found themselves operating an airlift on behalf...
...Government has expressed favorable sentiment regarding the proposals, though not very high enthusiasm. If the NATO countries vote their approval, as is to be expected, it is hoped that the United States will adopt and pursue the policy with an active and optimistic, rather than a reticent attitude. The hopes and opinions of Western Europe, as well as those of the rest of the free world, will focus sharply on the happenings in Paris next month...
Happy in the United States, they still correspond with home, but letters are few and widely spaced. Parents sometimes say the opposite of what they feel, and often adopt codes so they can tell their sons at Harvard what is really going on in Hungary. "Your friends" means "America;" "red ink" means "the truth;" "winter coat" means "changes;" "he's resting" means "he's in prison;" "the Square" may mean "secret police...