Word: adopted
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...authorities. Depending on their political perspective, some critics have compared this to the policies followed by the Nazis in Europe, the French in Algeria and the U.S. in Viet Nam. Though the Israelis have neither killed nor left Arabs homeless in the punitive actions, their decision to adopt the practice brought condemnation from the United Nations General Assembly's Social Committee. A resolution urging the Israelis to desist was passed 51 to 11, with fifty countries abstaining, among them the U.S., Britain and France. In a vicious blast, the Soviets likened the Israelis to Nazi Germany...
None of the forgotten Americans at Howard Johnson's would adopt me-not even the one at whom I flashed my Harvard I.D. Everybody's car was "too crowded." Eventually I won the trust of four cheerleaders, in bright blue uniforms, from the University of Buffalo. They had cheered their boys to victory over B.C. that very afternoon...
...rather than through Washington's second available weapon, the withholding of Health, Education and Welfare Department funds from noncomplying school districts. In August, HEW Secretary Robert Finch, supported by Attorney General lohn Mitchell, granted 33 Mississippi school districts a grace period of three months, until Dec. 1, to adopt a HEW-drawn plan for desegregation. Actual integration would have been delayed even further...
Prisons will be renamed, like the one at Chino, "Institutions for Men," and will permit weekend connubial visits for the married inmates. Universities will adopt cable-television systems that will permit students to "attend" their classes at home?and, incidentally, to keep their cars from jamming the highways. There will be no letup from nude-look fashion designers, who foresee the day when it will be commonplace for women to wear only body cosmetics from the waist up. The men will continue to wear clothes?but ever flashier ones. The antiestablishmentarians who created the underground press have already been trying...
...both Stafford and Downey in the top three, and Tom Yunck not far behind. By the second mile. Downey was finished. Stafford dropped out of contention a mile or so later, and the Crimson captured the first three places. with Colburn winning in record time. But in order to adopt that killing strategy you need depth. Harvard has it. and late this afternoon, barring unforeseen disasters, it will also have its third consecutive. Heptagonals championship...