Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would seem scarcely believable that the French Government . . . should adopt the policy of collaboration with other powers for the purpose of aggression. . . . We are therefore undertaking as speedily as possible to assemble every material fact and circumstance calculated to shed light on this alleged course of the French Government...
...Charles Lindbergh's ambiguous call for "new policies and a new leadership," caustic Columnist WestbrookPegler wrote: "We can't adopt new policies without a change of leadership and ... we can't repudiate the elected leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . without repudiating the people, and I should like to know how Lindbergh purposes to go about that...
...potent Bloomsbury group, he is one of Britain's top-ranking intellectuals and business pundits (as chairman of a life insurance company, National Mutual). But to the Government he remained an outsider, like Churchill, until the failures of World War II forced Tories and Labor alike to adopt (in part) his Compulsory Savings Plan...
Roman Catholics have never accepted the King James version of the Bible used by Protestants. Their Bible is based on a translation made by exiled English priests at Douai and Reims in the 16th Century. Seventy-two U.S. bishops have already urged Catholics in their dioceses to adopt the new revision. No Protestant denomination has as yet taken any comparable step in urging its members to discard the King James version for one of the several modernized translations offered in recent years...
...Grant), and the music-store salesgirl, Julie (Miss Dunne), inaugurate their marriage is blasted by a Tokyo earthquake which injures her and leaves them facing a childless future. They return to the States, where Roger buys a small-town newspaper. Their life together is unhappily aimless until they adopt an orphaned infant and encounter the problems of parenthood...