Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invasion of their private club. These OCH's, many of whom have no visible connection with Harvard, look askance at short pants on females and knee socks on men. They will sniff if you continue to dress as you did at your Old School, and will snicker if you adopt an Ivy League clothing. Intellectually, too, you will be damned if you do and damned...
Almost unnoticed in the uproar over Mendès' resignation, India's Prime Minister Nehru took a hand in France's Algerian troubles. Speaking to the Indian Parliament, Nehru called on both sides to adopt a ceasefire. After that, he suggested, the French government should recognize "the national entity and personality of Algeria ... on the basis of freedom," and enter into direct negotiations with the rebels. Since Nehru has considerable influence in the Arab-Asian bloc, Frenchmen noted gratefully that he had refrained from backing the rebels' demand for "independence," and had further urged "recognition that...
...Kefauver as "beneficial in all directions." But it harshly criticized the "Johnson-Rayburn line of 'party unity' with the Dixiecrats," the "Harriman-Truman line of attacking Geneva" and the "vacillations and retreats of Adlai Stevenson." What the U.S. Communist Party must do, its committee said, is to adopt "a more independent course which influences the direction of the Democratic Party...
Instead, the debator derives his satisfaction from mastering the argument on his side of the issue. "You don't adopt a set of beliefs that you don't accept," one debators said. "You merely try to understand the argument and restate it in a coherent manner...
...most specific manner of creating support was by association. Early in the school's history, interested outsiders suggested that the new, alumni-less group "adopt" alumni. The University quickly did so, realizing that many of its potential benefactors were first or second generation citizens who had not attended college and thus would respond to an offer of a mock diploma...