Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motorcycle cops, later by shining-helmeted swordsmen of the Garde Republicaine. That afternoon, amid dignified rather than hysterical applause, they drove up the Champs-Elysees to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. There the President saluted, walked past a guard of honor of hard. fit. proud-looking troops, laid a wreath of pink lilies and red roses beside the eternal flame. The President, standing bareheaded, was deeply moved. De Gaulle, several steps to the rear, waited for long moments as the drums rolled and taps broke the evening quiet. Half an hour later...
...North and South America broke away from Europe and Africa, and the chasm between them widened to form the Atlantic. The ridge reflects the shape of the shores on both sides of it, and it emphasizes the remarkable fact that if the New World were pushed eastward, it would fit with some precision into the western shore of the Old World...
...University's Dr. Louis F. Bishop. Also: changes in athletes' pulse rates are easy to measure but hard to evaluate, e.g., marathon runners' pulses are slower than sprinters'. In general, the pulse returns to normal more quickly after exercise in an individual who is physically fit...
...operas relieved by interludes of pop music-the audience likes to know who is actually carrying the tune. With Lata the moviegoers can hear their favorites in any one of twelve Indian dialects, and her popularity is such that she never changes her soft tone .or lilting style to fit the character on the screen. The effect is as if Doris Day did the singing for Baritone Tallulah Bankhead, Monotone Marilyn Monroe and Tammytone Debbie Reynolds in the same movie...
Army Way. In Tokyo, U.S. Army Sergeant Jack Lovett, having named his first six children Linda Fay, Larry Gay, Garry Ray, Glinda Kay, Brinda May and Winda Gay, ran out of ideas for his expected seventh, advertised in Stars and Stripes for a name to fit the rhyme...