Word: adopts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thrilled to give the same 24-hour door-to-door services, and take shorthand, too." Chiding him for his "unconstitutional" chauvinism, she wrote, in a more serious vein: "If one of the few women you do admire [listing a group of New York's prominent women] were to adopt the male equivalent of Lynne as lover and richly rewarded boy Friday, you wouldn't ask them back to dinner a second time...
...proposal does not change the rules of the review's annual writing competition, whose winners are also offered review membership. But the review did adopt a program to provide more information and encouragement about the writing competition for minority students...
Though the deal would save the Times, the announcement of the would-be rescuer has been greeted with dismay. Britons are already familiar with Murdoch's saucy Sun and sleazy News of the World, and the great worry is that the Times will itself adopt what the paper just four months ago described as "the breathless, grubby vision of the world inherent in the Murdoch style." Tongue tucked in cheek, Daily Mirror Columnist Keith Waterhouse told readers not to fret. "The girls," he wrote, "will appear in the Times Literary Supplement wearing fishnet stockings and mortarboard...
Quentin Crisp, sartorially eccentric English author, on the distinction between fashion and style: "Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know...
Cambridge city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci told the Somerville aldermen they should adopt tough DNA regulations at a public hearing last month. The GI facility would have been built near Cambridge...