Word: conform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would seem that the main motivation for drinking is a desire to conform or escape. Pugh notes that this form of drinking is common in the United States. In contrast to the European motivation to drink, which is of largely taste and tradition...
Randolph Churchill, who lost his parliamentary seat in Britain's general election, marked up another loss. For "failing to conform to a traffic sign," near Plymouth during his campaign, he was ordered to pay a fine...
Many students and teachers blame this lack of conviction on fear-the fear of being tagged "subversive." Today's generation, either through fear, passivity or conviction, is ready to conform...
...academic freedom" once & for all. It is all very well for scholars to pursue their researches wherever their researches lead them; teachers have no such right. Says Buckley: "Assuming [that] the overseers of the university have embraced democracy, individualism and religion, the attitudes of the faculty ought to conform to the university's . . ." If professors do not conform, says Buckley, they should be dismissed...
...What we have, then, is not a building expressive of the purposes of the United Nations, but an extremely fragile esthetic achievement, whose main lines conform to the ideals of a boom period of shaky finance and large-scale speculation . . . As a conscious symbol, the Secretariat adds up to zero; as an unconscious one, it is a negative quantity, since it symbolizes the worst practices of New York, not the best hopes of the United Nations...