Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still relentless in the effort to adopt all male garb to female garments, this year's long coats are simple overcoats with the shoulder pads on the hips. Leather has risen from the ranks of shoe, belt and glove material to decorate wrists, necks, pockets, hem-lines, and hats...
...referring to a "mess," was Stevenson just repeating the Journal's question or was he, as Republicans gleefully said, admitting that the Truman Administration was a mess of graft? When reporters put this to him at a midweek press conference, Stevenson at first seemed to adopt the second interpretation. Said he: "It's been proved, hasn't it? . . . Several people have been indicted." Then, backing off a bit, he added: "I would think that was probably true of any government, and more or less all of the time. What we want to do is reduce the number...
...sure-fire way to win the boss's attention is to adopt his own hobbies: " 'Got to hurry home, sir. The little devils are whelping.' 'Whelping, Finch? Don't tell me you're a mongoose man!' 'Are you too, sir? We are a rare breed, aren...
...course that Byrnes suggested would not have been possible in previous South Carolina presidential elections. Formerly, the voter had to select a Democratic or a Republican ballot, and not many South Carolina voters wanted to be seen taking the latter. In 1950, South Carolina became the last state to adopt the secret ballot with all candidates' names on one sheet.* With an eye to this change, Byrnes charted a course by which voters can stay Democrats and vote Republican...
Scores of Filipino families wanted to adopt the abandoned babies, but the army would not let them, hoping instead to restore the children to their real parents; in fact, the army hoped that concern for the Huklings might lure parents out of the jungle. Last week the army at last gave the children names instead of numbers, at a mass christening ceremony. One god parent: the wife of Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay, who gave a two-year-old girl her own name of Luz (which means Light...