Word: protean
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...memoirs should be regarded as a further but redundant demonstration that a policy of sound principle and sober purpose ultimately will prove of more avail than one of protean extremism...
...ancient coins, copies of Michelangelo and terra-cotta statuettes. For Pablo Picasso had hung his latest paintings in its tiled galleries. The regular habitues were bustled aside by a throng of up-to-the-minute pilgrims, who had come to see for themselves the newest chapter in the protean history of Picasso...
...that his world here, his physical and mental state, was real and enduring, a greater thing than anything else in the universe, when so plainly it was not. But not himself. A mere shadow-an illusion -nothing. ... It had all come to him, the evanescence of everything, its slippery, protean changefulness. Everything was alive, and everything was nothing, in so far as its seeming reality was concerned. And yet everything was everything but still capable of being undermined, changed, improved, or come at in some hitherto undreamed-of-way-even by so humble a creature as himself, an inventor...
...story of two teen-aged daughters of a Cape Town railroad laborer, who had simultaneously turned to boys. The younger promptly decided to leave a girls' seminary and join the army. But as the Vanguard finally sidled up to her Cape Town wharf, 1,200 other less protean schoolgirls, dressed in their best white, lined up to form the word "Welcome" on the side of Signal Hill. Some 200,000 more South Africans stood in the sweltering sun or clung to flagpoles to roar their greetings, many fainting with the heat. Britain's considerate King suggested that...
Virtually all German plants were closed up tight when the Allies marched in. Now the Group Control Council in Frankfurt is desperately struggling with the Protean problem of getting the German industrial machine turning over again, but not too fast. There is a pious hope that this undestroyed industrial giant can be kept manacled. As yet, there is no plan. The Council does not yet know enough about German industry to formulate a plan...