Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also owns a bookshop now, still hawks books from a barrow "in the gutter." Like every famed "character," he is permanently hoist with his own reputation: he can no more afford to become rich, or grammatical, or stop collecting autographs or saying "blimey!" than Groucho Marx can afford to adopt an upright, manly stance and a look of sincerity...
...canceling price boosts just announced by Ford, General Motors, Chrysler and Nash (see BUSINESS). The President's Economic Stabilization Agency therewith took the first big step toward selective wage and price controls. Others expected: steel, aluminum and copper. ESA begged the rest of industry and labor to adopt voluntary controls. Such pleading had never worked before, and would not this time, but ESA was simply not prepared to police a nationwide control order...
Such a speedup, the New York regents pointed out, would make it possible for many a student to squeeze in at least a year of college before induction. The regents were not asking New York schools to adopt their suggestion until Washington settles on an over-all national service plan. But when Washington does, the regents thought, accelerated high-school courses would become "a patriotic duty...
...necessarily the answer the country would adopt, but one thing was certain. The present draft procedures would be tightened, and many of the nice exemptions, particularly those that shielded college students, would be dropped. And probably that law would be changed to make 18-year-olds subject to the draft. It would be a bitter pill for youngsters and their parents, but the nation had no other choice...
...house building was torn down to make way for its successor. Services had been held in this building up till then. During the interlude, architectural plans were considered. Originally, members of the resident planning committee had wanted a traditional New England colonial church, but M.I.T. Lutherans persuaded them to adopt a less conventional building with modern lines...