Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither of us said anything. I decided to adopt a friendly tone...
Head Tutor Joseph A. Kahl said that the new measures were taken as a result of the recommendation by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that the five largest departments, Economics, English, History, Government, and Social Relations, adopt a tutorial-for-all program. The other departments are expecting to announce their changes before reading period...
...Never before in our history have we adopted a defeatist attitude toward despotism . . . We must adopt a positive policy and get away from the idea that the [Communist] overrunning of China is the final, last word...
Whether or not Russell & Co. cause Harry Truman to take himself out, they want the South to have a powerful voice in the convention, both as to platform and nominee. What they will do if the Democrats nominate Truman or a Trumanite, and adopt another all-out civil-rights plank, is uncertain. Dick Russell wouldn't say what he will do. In 1948 he let his name go before the convention, and got 263 votes. But he refused to join the Dixiecrats' post-convention bolt. After a 1952 convention defeat, the Southern Democrats could again try a third...
...Switzerland of the Americas" became one of the two countries in the world to be governed by an executive council with a rotating chairmanship. (The other: Switzerland.) As its first presiding officer, the council chose a man who had worked hard to persuade Uruguayans to abolish the presidency and adopt the "collegiate" council government: ex-President Andrés Martínez Trueba...