Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soon as Weaned." Augustus Hare, author of Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, Walks in Rome, and other popular Victorian travel books, was an unwanted child. When his godmother asked to adopt him, his delighted mother wrote back: "How very kind of you. Yes, certainly the baby shall be sent as soon as it is weaned; if anyone else would like one, would you kindly remember that we have others?" With "two little white nightshirts and a red coral necklace," Baby Augustus was packed off to his new home. His godmother was a religious fanatic who felt that happiness was next...
...their readers an intimate portrait of Dwight Eisenhower unable to sleep at night as he wrestled with a problem which might end in "the physical and final destruction of this republic." Ike's sleeplessness, according to the Alsops, was caused by worry as to whether his Administration should adopt the recommendations of Project Lincoln, a study of U.S. air defenses carried out at Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the request of the armed services...
...suggested that "American universities should adopt a firm policy that no teacher should be discharged because of his silence. If they do dismiss a professor for remaining silent, it seems to me that half the battle for academic freedom is lost in the university itself...
Selig insisted that he was not exactly out to buy the horses. He had, he announced, a better idea. His own company had just "adopted a University of Denver athlete . . . We will father him through four years . . . We are going to give him a job." Selig asked that other Boosters follow his company's example. "Adopt a boy," he cried. "Make him a real son . . . Do that for his full four years of school, in defeat as well as in victory...
...course, if Edwardianism asserts itself as the proper style of masculine dress, there is nothing to do but adopt it. We've readily taken up Chesterfields, so there is little reason for us to resist four or five or six button coats, inverted shoulders, walking sticks, bowlers, and full, flaring capes if they happen to become fashionable...