Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indonesia last week seemed on the brink of running amok. No one could say which of the nation's characteristics would triumph: that of halus, the ability to adjust passively to circumstances and thereby dominate them, or that of kasar, the blind, rough, uncivilized plunge into brutal action. If the decision rests with anyone, it is with President Sukarno, who, at 56, moves with deceptive lightness through domestic crises and international power plays. His mind and personality are quicksilver; there is a nowhere, now-there quality to his thinking and actions that bewilders his friends and enrages his foes...
...Even if the leg hurts, you can't pity him and let him favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering him. Maybe the girth might not be set right, and you have to adjust it. Sometimes I make my inside stirrup a notch or two shorter than the other. It makes no difference if I'm comfortable; my object is to finish good, not look good...
Eisenhower outlined 14 recommendations--some requiring legislative action and others not--for setting up what he called a new farm, food and fiber program to help farmers to adjust to today's rapidly changing economy...
...Corp., found that his executive study days at Harvard helped him tremendously in his job, but he points out that some men run into trouble on campus: "For Mr. Big, pulling up stakes and becoming a college boy again was an experience to which some men couldn't adjust. There were lots of little complaints-false heart attacks, failing appetite-things like that. The night before we went home, all hell broke loose, and men 40 and 50 years old marched through the dorms yelling, singing, beating pans." Says Clarence A. Dauber, engineering director of Cleveland Electric Illuminating...
...this holiday season, the musical voice of Christmas carries to vacationers paddling beneath the surface of Miami pools (via underwater loudspeakers), to women in slenderizing salons, to celebrators in non-slenderizing saloons. In Philadelphia, worshipers can drop by the Arch Street Methodist Church and adjust a selector to the hymn of their choice. From the highest building in Salt Lake City, Christmas carols boom across the Salt Lake Valley. "I don't want to sound like Scrooge," complained an irate woman, "but damn it, I don't want to go without sleep until December 26th, either...