Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professors reluctant to adopt Hutchins' views of education: "Faculties always oppose any new program by saying the students can't do the work, which always means that the faculty doesn't want to do the work...
...libidos. Cartoonist Augie Poole is one of them, a 16-cylinder Lothario who knows how to operate on curves. Augie's wife can turn her"china-blue eyes on her husband like two gun barrels," but she loves him and they decide to make themselves a threesome by adopting a baby. It is not easy. Augie quickly learns that to meet an adoption agency's qualifications, he needs several virtues he does not possess. But what he finds so hard to adopt he finds deceptively easy to create-with a major assist from his mistress. The result...
...United States Debate Tournament begins tomorrow at West Point with 32 teams representing the eight districts competing. The College faces St. Cloud College in its first preliminary round match. The debate topic for the national championships is" Resolved, That the United States should adopt a policy of free trade...
...Steelworkers' 1,200,000 members, said McDonald, 189,000 are unemployed and 257,000 are working only part-time. The total, 446,000, represents some 40% of the union's membership. McDonald urged the President to adopt an emergency program which would stimulate the economy by increasing benefits for unemployment and social security, providing a $200 raise in personal income-tax exemptions, expanding the federal public works program, and boosting home construction and slum clearance work...
...Christians. Last week A. M. Tambunan, leader of the Christian Party, submitted a memorandum to Parliament deploring a growing campaign of terror against his people in southern Celebes. Roving bands of Moslem terrorists in the Celebes, said he, have forced more than 6,000 Christians to adopt Islam under penalty of death. Many others have been tortured and killed. Bibles have been torn up and used as cigarette paper, while more than 20 churches have been turned into mosques. "These deplorable events" said Mr. Tambunan, "are increasing in number every...