Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet the enemy at Harlem Heights. That term for tough, elite U.S. troops persisted through the War of 1812. Then it fell into disuse in the federal service, although Texas and some other states had constabulary troops called Rangers. During World War II, the U.S. Army did not adopt the British term "commando," and again called its special troops Rangers. They moved dangerously behind enemy lines, compiled a heroic record...
...clip which can be fired automatically or single shot, and theoretically is capable of firing 750 rounds per minute. Almost everybody but the British went away thinking the new U.S. rifle was the No. 1 choice for NATO. British military men are still giving the impression that Britain will adopt the .280 regardless of NATO, but they have agreed to postpone going into production...
...five years, they owned 22; sales soared to $13.5 million. Main secret of the Friedlands' success is quick service to move goods fast. All new Food Fairs have low counters so that the housewife can quickly spot whatever she wants and move on. The Friedlands were fast to adopt prepackaged meat; their new stores have a conveyor-belt system for groceries at the checkout counter, and teams of five to count and package the orders. The Friedlands are moving just as fast as the customers. In the next year, they plan to build 19 new stores...
...management is competent, that his product will benefit Europe as a whole (example: a Dutch shipbuilder would probably qualify for aid, a French girdle maker would not), and that labor unions in his plants are not Communist-dominated. Above all, ECA insists, European employers must be willing to adopt one principle of U.S.-style capitalism: increased profits must "filter down to the worker" in better pay or lower prices...
Pierre Emmanuer, French poet and Summer School instructor, highlighted his commentary by taking issue with both the speakers. Opposing the idea that the critic must adopt a philosophical theory of truth, he asked, "Is not truth in the hands of the philosophers like a work of art in the hands of the critics...