Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Western clothes on, the Masai may lose their lucrative business of posing for camera-carrying tourists for a 1-shilling (14?) fee; they adopt a menacing pose for 2 shillings. Nyerere, who himself usually wears a Chinese-style boiler suit, does not seem to care about the tourist revenues that he may lose. His policy reflects not only the prudish nationalism of his socialist state but a black backlash against foreigners who, Mkwang'ata claims, romanticize the Masai as "walking, talking specimens of the noble savage." However, as an English-language newspaper, the Tanzania Standard, points out, Nyerere...
...Dallas County Records Building. The other two shots came from the sixth floor of the Texas Depository-but not from Oswald. Two other assassins had done the shooting; Oswald was the fall guy. The Warren Commission concluded that one assassin had fired three shots. This forced the commission to adopt the controversial "single bullet" theory: the assumption that the same bullet passed through Kennedy's neck, passed through Connally's chest and then struck his wrist and thigh...
...wide-ranging is Allied surveillance and so swift U.S. response with air strikes, artillery and helilifted soldiers that few safe spots remain to the Communists in South Viet Nam. As a result, Hanoi's new commander in the field, Lieut. General Hoang Van Thai, has been forced to adopt a different strategy. U.S. analysts in Saigon have dubbed it the strategy of the periphery. In plain terms, it is hit-and-run for the nearest border-Laos, Cambodia or North Viet Nam -where the lethal arm of U.S. power cannot pursue. The result is likely to be more...
Last May, the MBTA announced that it planned to adopt the so-called "Scheme D" for its extension up Massachusetts Avenue. Under this plan, it would build an expanded Harvard Square Station, to be located under the Avenue, parallel to Strauss and Lionel Halls...
...explains how Neil L. Rudenstine, assistant professor of English, dramatically changed the mood of the protestors by asking if the crowd wished "to adopt the repressive techniques of yesteryear...