Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed changes in the social code also mentioned chaperones and sleeping facilities but did not appear to legislate in such a way as to alter the house party in any major fashion...
...Chinese Communists exist because the people permit, support and wholeheartedly fight with them," reported U.S. Foreign Service Officer John Stewart Service from China in 1944. "The common people for the first time have been given something to fight for." In this situation, said Service, the U.S. ought to alter its policy of supporting the Chinese Nationalist government lest it drive the Chinese Communists into the arms of the Kremlin. Last week, years after his favorable view of Chinese Communism was proved tragically wrong, Service, 48, was back at work in the State Department...
Last week both politicians and reporters wondered whether Dwight Eisenhower's experiences with the 85th Congress would prompt him to alter his philosophy. Did he plan to wage a Truman-type "Give 'em hell" campaign next year against the men who had opposed his programs? His no was clear and unqualified. Said he at the press conference: "I will just have to pursue what is natural...
...that, in the end, Producer Zanuck and Director King do not quit when Hemingway is ahead. The film's semihappy ending is an altogether sappy ending. The book made it plain that there was no hope for Jake and Brett ever to alter or escape their anguished, futile bondage. Yet the movie has them finally agreeing to the silver-lined proposition that "there must be some answer for us -somewhere...
...start for ORDIR. The device's distinctive signal can be applied to many communication systems, will be especially helpful in weak signal situations. One possible use in the future: flashing a signal to earth from a satellite. Concludes Columbia's Dean Dunning: "The system seems to alter the whole concept of how we're going to communicate over long distances and in outer space...