Word: conformable
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...Obviously we need the building, and obviously if we have to conform we will," he said...
...Civil Rights Bill, said Friedman, is "wrong in principle," because it attempts to make people "conform to the values of the majority...
Above all, it was at his irrepressible insistence that Harvard's diffuse studies of language were forged into a vigorous Department of Comparative Philology (the name became "Department of Linguistics" in 1951 to conform to current usage). His relentless emphasis on statistical method in linguistic analysis enabled this department to pioneer a mathematical approach to language that now promises to bring order into the filed. He ran the department singlehandedly as a benevolent tyrant from 1926 until his retirement last June...
...named "the boy" and "the girl." Sydne Kalet is fully believable as the charming 16 year old girl, though occasionally a more mature voice and graceful style would have suited her role. As for the young lad (Dean Stolber), he is "grown up and stable and willing to conform"; but he is in love and life is a poem...
...other newspapers and magazines. It showed an inviting, bikini-clad blonde above the caption: "What to Show Your Wife in Scandinavia." But it clearly was not what to show your wife in Los Angeles. Before running the ad, the Times censor scrupulously amended the blonde's anatomy to conform to regulations. He removed her navel...