Word: conforming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar Blimpertinence. The script was condemned, and all Army assistance denied to its producers, because several scenes contained "incidents against regulations''-notably incidents in which a renegade sergeant disputes (though he does not disobey) the authority of a lieutenant. But if Men in War does not always conform to the prim letter of the Army manual, it holds to the raw spirit of combat as hard as any dogface clutches his rifle...
...suggest you applaud the Enterprise's editorial gambits: "Don't move the girls; move the school," and the fingerprinting of all Nevada clergymen. The first we won hands down, and the town of Searchlight dutifully moved the grade school 500 yards from the nearest crib to conform with the law. The latter matter is in flux. But I do suggest that we have more fun, give greater pleasure and outrage to more people and perform a far higher duty to civilization than all the editors of weeklies who are fretted for integration, gambling and their own "good name...
...executives really expect wives to conform to any stereo. typed image. Said Joseph E. Adams, vice president of White Motor Co.: "Consider the nation's top executives. How many of them would have been hired if wives had been a factor in the selection? Some men need a psychiatrist at home who will listen to their problems. Others need frivolous wives to distract them. Some need wives who are prominent in civic activities, some not. You can't type a wife...
After this matter has been settled, Hoffman's discussion turns to Formal Aspects, the first being literary. He says, "While a thesis need not be the work of beauty with rolling periods in the Churchillian style, it must conform to certain accepted grammatical usages." He explains that "there should be sentences," and proposes that it is time for the senior to learn a coherent sentence form. "This," he says, "is the time to take down your grammar of the English language from its shelf." Hoffman, however, has been negligent in reading his own style book, for he states that...
...this country, Herodotus' phrase has been slightly rewritten to conform to the more heroic conception of a courageous courier who fights his way through the cold, black night to bring the news to a last outpost of civilization. "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," is the popular adaptation of Herodotus' words, which, although certainly discriminatory towards Persian messengers, has been inscribed atop the main Post Office Building in New York City...