Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Debate Council scored its first victory against two defeats in Ivy League competition last night, by scoring a two to one decision over the University of Pennsylvania on the topic, "Resolved: That the federal government should adopt a permanent program of wage and price control...
...ruin religion, confuse castes, undermine the authority of the Scriptures, damage Hindu culture, split every family, pit brothers against sisters, and profit only lawyers." Nehru, he said, is "a black Englishman [who] studied in the West . . . and is so stuffed with its ways that he wants us all to adopt Christian customs...
...question of outdoor meetings, the Committee felt it was for Provost Buck to decide whether to adopt the Council's resolution permitting Yard gatherings "when such use will not interfere with classroom or office activities or the convenience of Yard residents...
Then, as if unwilling to end on so despairing a note, Director Akira Kurosawa tacks on a hopeful epilogue: the three men in the rain-drenched ruins discover an abandoned baby, and, by the unselfish act of volunteering to adopt the child, the woodcutter restores the priest's faith in humanity. Though the film could hardly have found a better example of a compassionate saving grace, the scene seems an arbitrary afterthought that does not fit the story...
...from it. The report notes admiringly: "Some peasants have undertaken to adopt the pattern of an agricultural cooperative. Under this system the land would be collectively cultivated and the produce distributed according to the members' contribution of labor and land." Obviously, the 42.3% of the peasants who still prefer to "work by themselves" and "yearn for the capitalist way of getting rich" might profitably remember what happened to the Russian kulak...