Word: adjustive
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fate; he could scarcely change it. In the modern U.S., people think easily of changing their family, like their occupation or their home. The result is psychologically unsettling and yet this change ability has obviously become a part of American life and the family will have to adjust to it. Theologian Sam Keen (Apology for Wonder) suggests that one should boldly take the notion of the family as a center for mobility: "It should be thought of like a gypsy caravan. You have that point of stability in the caravan, but it is continually moving and each member...
After 19 months of valiantly trying to adjust to Ford Motor's more freewheeling style of management, Knudsen was fired. This time Henry Ford split the job of president into three parts and gave lacocca only one of them, with the ponderous title of executive vice president of Ford Motor Co. and president of Ford North American Automotive Operations...
...their income for rent. ???ast Wednesday's public hearing on rent increases was the first time that anyone representing the elderly spoke out on rent control. Catherine Handley of the Committee for the elderly approached the microphone after most everyone else had spoken. A young tenant jumped up to adjust the microphone for the short grey-haired lady in a prim blue pillbox hat. She didn't really say anything different from any of the other tenants and she wasn't backed up by the rest of the Committee for the Elderly chanting or carrying signs but she was perhaps...
...there's more to football than meets the eye, I've learned, especially my eye. Yesterday the word was going around that Harvard had thrown a variety of defenses at Princeton which had totally confused the boys. The Tigers just couldn't adjust, and Harvard took advantage. So the Crimson deserves some credit for the interceptions; it wasn't just because of lousy passing. This ability to confuse Rod Plummer and Tim Testerman is particularly satisfying after last year's debacle in the Stadium. Quarterback Scott MacBean came to the line, read Harvard's defense, and then called the appropriate...
...routine procedure, it entails an unusual risk along the Russian-Turkish border. The Soviets sometimes adjust their own, usually stronger beacons to the same frequency as those across the border. In fact, the U.S. is convinced that at least once, in 1959, they deliberately overrode a signal from Turkey to lure a U.S. military transport across the border and attack it. That incident took 17 U.S. lives...