Word: adjustive
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...some Tories claim, simply too good to be true. One acquaintance traces Heath's transformation back to Balliol: "When Ted went to Oxford, it was during the terribly class-conscious Britain of the '30s. He knew at Oxford that if he wanted to get ahead, he'd have to adjust. Ted shucked his working-class accent, clothes and whole life style for that of the upper class. It was a conscious, cynical decision, and I think he regrets it today." Still, Heath never pulled up his roots; he not only kept in close touch with his family but never hesitated...
...have had to adjust rather fast, for it is not games you have been playing here during these years but rather the real thing. Yet amidst the upsetting alarums and excursions occasioned during your years in college by a determined few who have worked consistently to attract attention to themselves by misrepresenting what we are about, as you have gone ahead with your work, you have made clear one hopeful sign. That is, your generation's vigorous assertion that you will not be satisfied with a learning or a way of life whose most convincing credentials are only that they...
...Delicate Adjustment. The furnace's appearance is as spectacular as its power. Its glittering eight-story-high parabolic reflector (roughly half the size of a football field) towers over Odeillo's centuries-old houses. Anchored against a reinforced concrete office and laboratory building, the huge concave mirror consists of 8,570 individual reflectors. For the furnace to operate efficiently, these small (18 inches square) mirrors must be precisely adjusted so that their light will converge exactly at the parabola's focal point 59 ft. in front of the giant reflector. Only half of the mirrors have been...
Wolff also noted behavioral patterns among pedestrians walking in the same direction. Generally, they move in a sort of formation that permits them to see over the shoulders of the people in front. When one person in a cluster of individuals changes position, the others adjust theirs to accommodate the new "over-the-shoulder" relationship. Walking directly behind somebody is usually saved for congested sidewalks, when the person ahead is used as a sort of blocking guard. Hurrying through a crowd alone is often more tiring than timesaving. "To beat the rush-hour mob in New York," says Wolff...
...crew made steady progress: it just takes a while to adjust to new conditions and a bigger boat." Horn said...