Word: adaptation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Establishment of an organization to adapt the treaty structure to changing conditions. ("We must have an organization to promote changes in the treaty structure ... as may be needed to keep that structure responsive to future changes in underlying conditions...
...location of war plants has caused workers to take time off for shopping and medical care. And transportation bottlenecks in many communities have detained or prevented workers from getting to their jobs. The problem concerns neither attitudes of the workers nor unions, but rather the slowness of localities to adapt themselves to the influx of war plants and labor...
...problem is not how to prevent the annihilation of the study of arts and letters, but how to adapt a venerable tradition in education to our modern age. And such an adaptation has, to my mind, been long overdue. Therefore the period of stress and strain on which we are now entering may well prove to be beneficial. Contrary to a view prevalent in certain quarters, academic institutions are among the most conservative in human history. An occasional jolt may be wholesome; it forces adjustments to meet now needs...
General purpose of the school is to help the Army cope with the problem of mental illness (TIME, Jan. 4), the chief reason for Army medical discharges. Specific purpose of the school is to adapt civilian neuropsychiatrists to military practice by 1) brushing up those who are predominantly neurologists on psychiatry, and vice versa; 2) teaching the doctors how to keep their heads above Army paper work; 3) indoctrinating the men with the Army's attitude toward all patients-get them back on active duty or discharge them...
...greatest handicap of the Japanese is their lack of imagination. They carry out orders to the letter and, if necessary, to death. But when things go wrong, they cannot adapt their tactics. If Jap attackers meet resistance, they advance anyhow-which accounts for the terrible slaughter to which Japanese troops submit themselves...