Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morgenthau refused, however, to speculate on whether the Soviet leader had committed a diplomatic blunder in his speech before the United Nations. Other considerations, he said, may have impelled Khrushchev to adopt a hard line...
...agree with your formula for the successful mating of East and West. I am German, and I am married to a Pakistani. Before coming to the U.S., I lived in Pakistan. I lived there very happily with my husband and with everybody else even though I 1) did not adopt Islam; 2) did not accept the constraints of Moslem society, e.g., I certainly did talk to my husband's male friends; 3) did not learn to wear a sari or salwar and kameez-for the same reason that your article points out: a Western girl rarely looks good...
...rate of growth," the U.S. can have full employment, "pay for all the defenses this Administration says we can't afford," build the best schools and hire "the best-paid and best-trained teachers. If we're going to grow the way we should grow, we must adopt fiscal policies that will stimulate growth and not discourage...
That meow was too much for one alien wife, Mrs. Joan Das of Bombay. "Pity the poor Western wife!" she answered. "If she brings her national customs over to India, she is being hopelessly insular; and if she tries to adopt Indian customs, she becomes hopelessly ridiculous. I am hanging on to my saris, because I have faith in India and Indians. I can hardly believe that every Indian I have met during the past ten years, while paying me compliments with his lips, has secretly been laughing up his sleeve...
...South Wales's Labor government is dead set against capital punishment, but at week's end Premier Heffron promised to consider "drastic increases" in the state's maximum kidnaping penalty of ten years. Public pressure was building up for Australia's national government to adopt something like the U.S. "Lindbergh Law." which makes transporting a kidnapee across state lines a federal offense, punishable by death...