Word: conformable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FCDA is correct in saying that its shelters will protect some people, who happen to live in wooden houses at the proper distance from an explosion that does not set the houses on fire or spray them with radioactivity. Not all atom bombs will conform to such conditions...
...quickly scotched a report that he would leave the cutting of U.S. combat strength to Secretary Wilson. The size of our armed forces, he said, would conform with what he always goes back to-George Washington's old precept of a reasonable posture of military defense. The responsibility for cutting would not be one that he would delegate...
...again, by the time you have read this column, you may have decided to conform. Don't let us disappoint you. Our tips may be more effective when teamed with this year's string-bean lines. Yet they'll certainly spike any old lore in the closet...
Government, as Rhee practices it, is almost a one-man job. He has a few trusted cabinet ministers, such as Acting Premier Paik To Chin and Information Minister Clarence Ryee. Below them are a number of lesser ministers and government officials who cautiously conform to Rhee's wishes. Government favors can be obtained only through Rhee and this circle of his intimates. All foreign exchange allocations for more than $500, for example, must be personally approved by Rhee. Imposed to ensure the strictest honesty in government operations, this control has its drawbacks: important decisions inevitably await the President...
...teaching and preaching, as opposed to teaching facts. Did Ike think a Communist could contaminate such non-controversial subjects as mathematics or calculus? Easily, said the President. He was reminded of a Nazi textbook that had been permeated with politics. The simplest problems had been set up to conform to Nazi doctrine: "If there are so many Sudenten Germans in Czechoslovakia who actually belong to Mr. Hitler ..." Here even elementary arithmetic had been colored with politics...