Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the King, upon opening the conversation in Norwegian, was informed by Steenstrup that he had not conversed in Norwegian for thirty years, and that his Norwegian conversational ability was hardly fit for a King, the King smiled and continued his remarks in English...
...which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera. Last week Mayor Walker and his friends discussed whether or not they could afford to investigate the thing. It was right in their own party and would rejoice the Republicans. The milk graft, too, was scarcely fit to be printed, involving, as it did, almost the entire milk supply of the city and the most responsible of overseers...
...original wife of his pouted bosom, rearing family after family with her in their first and only love-nest on some Dutchman's rooftree or in the cornice of a South European villa. So faithful and contented is the admirable stork, indeed, that he was long ago judged fit to represent the mysterious agency that brings the patter of tiny feet to human abodes. Pet storks are commonly named "Cato," after the eminent Stoic...
...recall, however that once when a highwayman took a case into one of the courts the presiding Justice suffered a fit from which he never recovered...
From their comment it was plain that Italy's continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...