Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch his son's progress. One day in 1949 he watched the boy die; the youth's plane came down for a landing and crashed directly before his horrified father. For months after that the Floyds lived in a sort of daze. Finally Mrs. Floyd decided to adopt another child...
...were afraid it might be folly to take on a whole new family. Mrs. Floyd had seen only two of the children and Floyd himself had seen none of them. They gambled anyhow-in a fashion which would probably have appalled a social worker-and decided almost overnight to adopt the five...
...help of an incentive payment plan. The company, which pays its 12,000 workers a good (for England) minimum weekly wage ($14 for men, $10.50 for women), provides increases for any group of workers which lowers the man-hour cost per unit. Says he: "If all British industries would adopt such an incentive scheme, we'd clear up our economic troubles overnight...
Fyke Farmer, far less pyrotechnical than Marshall, stuck safely to his argument that the Rosenbergs were sentenced under the wrong law. Chief Rosenberg Counsel Manny Bloch was needled by the bench for his belated urging of Farmer's new point of law. "I now adopt it as my own." he said, but he wanted at least a month to prepare adequate argument...
...Give in to Rhee, adopt his demands at Panmunjom, and then be prepared to continue the stalemated war or seek a mili tary decision when the Reds turn down the demands...