Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chronic heavy drinking can and does alter facial features; and it produces no Olympic winners, except in bobsledding. But an occasional beer is harmless. If legal restrictions were limited to heavy drinking, popular support might make effective enforcement more possible. If a large segment of bartenders' sales were made legal, they might join with the law in preserving the health of the beardless minor. And by robbing drinking of the romantic character given by its illegality, heavy consumption might decrease...
...meeting today, the Faculty will probably also act on a new proposal to alter the non-honors requirements in the Bio-Chemical Sciences...
With his new suggestions for NATO strategy last week, Secretary of State Dulles showed that the Administration feels compelled to alter its foreign policy in the face of caustic foreign and domestic criticism. The new twist, although laudable passes only as a beginning and cannot be interpreted as a major revision of policy. The altered attitude should be extended, enlarged, and made a permanent part of United States foreign outlook...
...came Sigmund Freud to champion a newer hypothesis: man. without a God. is largely governed by a strange, little-known power called the Unconscious. It was a startling, indeed a discomfiting theory (though it had been hinted at even before Oedipus confronted the Sphinx), for it asked man to alter his vision of himself and almost everything that he valued, from his religion to his mode of dress...
...success and growth. But I wholeheartedly deny the inevitability of their failure. I believe that our future now, as in the past, will be largely what we make it. Obviously the forces which now challenge us are far more formidable than any our predecessors knew. Yet this does not alter the basic premise; it simply means that the task ahead is that much harder and the outcome that much more decisive...