Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many Notre Dame critics-and they are legion, particularly among rival coaches-point out that Notre Dame's bird-dogging alumni fervently flush out football players by the covey. Even nonalumni, e.g., New York's subway variety, feel such a kinship for the Fighting Irish that they adopt Notre Dame and flood it with batches of scouting reports on swivel-hipped high-school backs, blockbusting linemen. Notre Dame acknowledges the bird-dogging tactics of its alumni talent scouts, but points out briskly that, unlike some institutions which pull players out of trees and suit them up, Notre Dame...
...situation since then, and "solutions." When I said I had really come to ask about the solutions, the professorial attitude fell away and he laughed. He talked tensely, his brown eyes darting, his hands in constant movement. "Since the electoral solution looks impossible," he said, "we must adopt a revolutionary solution. This will lead to a restoration of constitutional government and the full authority of the voters. For me, Prío is still the President of Cuba. When the revolution is complete, Prío will return and finish out his lawful term. Then, with the constitution restored...
...film milks a few laughs by dressing Webb up as a scoutmaster and turning him loose on an overnight hike with his irreverent charges. Unfortunately, the whole thing soon turns from slapstick to sentiment as Webb and his wife (Frances Dee) decide to adopt Master Winslow. Edmund Gwenn does his twinkling best as a clergyman in on the plot to make a child-lover of Webb...
...began when the Ministry of Agriculture encouraged British chicken farmers to adopt the battery system, a U.S. method of making hens lay more eggs. Batteries are 2-foot-square cages, floored with wire netting and exactly big enough to house one plump hen (see cut). Once enclosed in a battery with the light burning 18 hours a day (to encourage overtime), a hen spends the rest of its life (about nine months) eating, sleeping and laying standard-size eggs. Battery hens average 190 eggs a year, their free-roaming barnyard rivals 30 to 40 less...
...moment he called in a station wagon to pick up the two boys, each of whom was quartered in a different home. As soon as the youngsters met, they hugged each other, and the oldest turned, beaming at Floyd, and said: "I've been praying that somebody would adopt us all. You're gonna make a swell dad." Most of the difficulties which the Floyds had anticipated melted away. American Airlines obligingly shipped all five children to California on passes. The Floyds managed a bigger house. The children took to them from the beginning...