Word: readjustment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realities. There is a new season to be taken on, and new poundage to be taken off. He undergoes his customary blood test, takes his own blood pressure and pronounces himself fit but "rather overweight." Then he flies off to London for recording sessions, leaving his family to readjust after a period of revolving solely around him. He calls Adua later to see how things are going. "Wonderful," she sighs wearily. "The girls and I are about to start our vacation...
...founding mother of The New Yorker. She was also a gardener, a fiercely dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So strong that Katharine S. White managed to sow in the least rustic of magazines a classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent...
...notes, "real good." Two essential ingredients for a tornadic storm seem to be present, and just as surely moving inexorably toward a showdown. If the cold, swift-moving jet-stream wind persists and clashes with the warm, moist lower air from the south, the atmosphere will be forced to readjust dramatically, creating the vortex of vertical air currents that cause tornadoes...
...Lufthansa robbery, Burke was paroled from prison where he was serving time for a previous cargo caper. So far he has refused to answer questions about the Lufthansa heist. Burke has not endeared himself to reform penologists who urge that convicts be placed in the community to help them readjust to life beyond the walls. He was in a New York "halfway house" for just that purpose when the missing Tommy DeSimone was in the same well-meant program. Police believe the two ex-cons seized that happy coincidence to plot the nation's biggest armed robbery...
Toffler called for a "reconstitution" of the U. S. Constitution to readjust in stitutions to society, but was quick to add that he thought the document was a "work of genius...