Word: adapters
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...democracies have disappointingly little to offer in opposition. Our State Department is stepping up its program rapidly and beginning to adapt its methods to local conditions. But unless a bigger and better job is done, by U.S. private enterprise as well as government, there is clear danger that we shall again, as in China, lose the war of ideas - and the support of the illiterate millions whom we have not yet learned to talk to in ways they understand." Cordially yours...
...like the animals, has a built-in mechanism of infinite complexity and delicacy to help him adapt himself to hunger, heat, cold, exhaustion or terror. Normally the mechanism is self-regulating (like a heating plant with a thermostat). But sometimes, Selye says, it gets out of kilter. Then the body either overdoes the job of adapting itself to stress, underdoes it, or simply does it wrong. What follows may be disease or even death. Doubtless this has always been true, but it seems to be happening oftener now that man has built himself a civilization which subjects his old-fashioned...
Jordan was brought up footballwise at Pittsburgh, the entrenched citadel of the single wingback offense. Since he knows that style of play best, his present offense is basically single wing, but with varia- tions and aginstment necessary to adapt his offense to his available material, Actually, it is a single wing T, with direct and indirect passing from center...
...line coach; Joe Maras, the large end coach; and Josh Williams, a real pepper guy who coaches backs--are taking nothing for granted. They are emphasizing the fundamental football techniques of blocking, tackling, and hard running. Harvard's success this year will depend on how well the squad can adapt itself to Jordan's ways of doing things, and on how well the manpower holds...
...Mars, its seasonal changes (suggesting the growth of vegetation) and its geometrically regular details (suggesting intelligent designers and builders) will be explained away by further research -and with them all life on Mars. But perhaps not. "We [have not] demonstrated," De Vaucouleurs says hopefully, "that life could not adapt itself to the known conditions of dryness, temperature, atmospheric pressure and atmospheric composition [on Mars]-after all not so very different from...