Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Julian typifies the aggressive, perhaps fanatical (they're all lovable) manager, Dave Place, genial custodian of the managerial duties of the football field, succeeds in quite another way. Place, along with Dave Arnold under the co-managerial set-up the H.A.A. was forced to adopt because of the war, had charge of the largest gang of neophyte ball-gatherers and towel-holders of all sports. In football managing, one's attitre is strictly de rigeur...
Ambassador Hayes's revelation that we are provisioning Spain, on top of I'affaire Darlan, prompts me to suggest that we adopt as our emblem the Chamberlain umbrella...
...infuriating story" is told in FORTUNE for January: the futile effort of Drury A. McMillen, Yale graduate, engineer and businessman of São Paulo, Brazil, to persuade the U.S. armed forces to adopt a new, simplified system of aviation navigation...
...economic schemes which, however laudable in purpose, may be presently impracticable. . . . Actually, I believe that Christ was the great realist. ... He did not propound specific reforms and advocate specific revolts. But what He taught operated as political and social dynamite, because those that believed His word were forced to adopt a revolutionary attitude toward the social and political systems under which they lived...
...preparing youngsters who had never seen death for the task of killing. With little groups of men younger than himself the 25-year-old lieutenant colonel sat under eucalyptus trees and expounded the kill-or-be-killed philosophy which President Roosevelt and Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair were to adopt in their speeches months later. "You've got to get in there and kill the Jap or he'll kill you," said Buzz...