Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captive in the hands of the Western Allies. But they, having observed that the Nuremberg trials generated sympathy for the Nazis, decided this time to adopt a different plan: Stalin was handed over to a committee of eminent Quakers, who contended that even he, by the power of love, could be led to repentance and to the life of a decent citizen...
Economics has become the third Department to adopt a variation of the graduate fellowship program proposed by Dean Ford last Fall. Next year ten to 15 graduate students will receive financial aid under the new four-year program...
...more the evidence seems to point in one direction, the more important it is to remind ourselves that everyone must be assumed innocent until proved guilty. To do otherwise is to adopt the logic of a lynch...
President Johnson did not have to enforce the Cuban trade embargo. Although the 1963 Foreign Aid Act bans assistance to countries transporting merchandise to Cuba, it gives the President discretionary powers for enforcement. Instead of resisting emotional cries for action, Johnson has chosen to adopt a harsh foreign policy, to indulge in "get-tough" posturing...
...Useem called also for a reform of adoption rules along "family of man" lines. White parents should be able to adopt Negro children, and Negro parents to adopt white children, she declared. Conceding such an innovation would cause the demise of present cultural groups, she said it was the only way to preserve the family...