Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second-intensive preparation for a showdown by 1953-seems the least perilous of the three. This path has, however, a special pitfall which could make it the most dangerous of all. If the U.S. and its Allies do not start intensive defense preparations immediately, or if they adopt half-measures, or if they are lulled by Russian conciliatory gestures into stopping halfway, then they will place themselves in a worse position than their present...
...world could see it in all its iniquity. "An easily grown, cheaply produced, substantially efficient and pleasantly tasting food," Britain's top potato authority told his fellow scientist's, "can, under certain political and economical conditions, fatally menace the social well-being of the people who adopt...
Freed from the month-long paralysis of Malik's presidency, the Security Council acted on three resolutions during the week. Warren Austin argued that the shooting in the Yellow Sea made it more urgent than ever to adopt the U.S. resolution condemning North Korea for its "continued defiance" of U.N. and calling on "all states to refrain from assisting or encouraging the North Korean authorities and to refrain from action which might lead to the spread of the Korean conflict...
...Formosa during World War II, Acheson argued,* and the U.S. had not been forced then to fall back on the Golden Gate. But primarily, Acheson deplored the timing. At that very moment, he reminded the group, the State Department was trying to get the United Nations, despite Malik, to adopt the neutralizing of Formosa as U.N.'s own formal policy. Warren Austin appeared to be making some progress along that line. MacArthur's statement would upset Acheson's policy...
...nation so far seemed to accept this plethora of prosperity and plenty with none of the qualms of conscience which had afflicted it during World War II. Nobody was demanding that men chop the cuffs off their pants, or that women make bandages and adopt a look of austerity. Advertisements for piecrust mix and plumbing plungers made no pretense at all that the product was being gotten out as a reward to "the boys" overseas. There had been no revival of such phrases as "The home front" and "Don't you know there...