Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that graces British life-will be endangered by EEC membership. There is a positive dread that chattering Frenchmen would monopolize London's sidewalks, that garlic-eating Italians in careering Alfa Romeos would shatter the tranquillity of the rustic British countryside, and that those too-efficient Germans would brusquely alter the cozy tea-break routine of British workers...
Bold Goal. Beyond all this, Psychologists Klebanoff, Klein and Schleifer have a bold and touching goal: to alter the temper of the nation by influencing normal as well as abnormal children. Explains Klebanoff: "Maybe that's the mission of these disabled kids-if normal schoolkids see a child in braces struggling to overcome his problems, maybe things won't look so bad to them, and maybe they'll be inspired to help. I hope it might make a more gentle America. It sure can't hurt...
...past year was filled with anxiety in its passage. Yet in retrospect it appears to have been a constructive period when attitudes began to alter, and restorative forces have reasserted themselves...
...hard to imagine, however, that such gestures could drastically alter the impression in South Viet Nam that Thieu is Washington's favorite. Last year, after all, Richard Nixon described Thieu as one of the "five or six greatest statesmen" in the world today. No matter how neutral the U.S. appears, Thieu is not likely to let the voters forget that overblown paean...
...could create other problems as well. Its emphasis on hospitals as the principal purveyors of primary care could, many fear, force the patient to accept treatment from any doctor who happened to be available. This, opponents feel, would deny them the right to choose their own doctors. It would alter still further the physician-patient relationship, a personal tie that has already been strained by a number of factors, including growing specialization...