Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infield is the best around. Murtaugh can play Ted Kluszewski (if his back heals,) Dick Stuart if they can find a hat to fit him), or Rocky Nelson (Mr. Minor League) at first. Bill Mazeroski has no peer at second base and with Dick Groat, a steady .300 hitter, they give the Pirates a DP combination second only to the Reds.' Don Hoak is no Frank Thomas, but you can't have everything...
...their familiar padded jackets and baggy pants. Result: on Moscow streets, vivid hats are replacing drab shawls, and more men are wearing fedoras instead of cloth hats. But following fashion is not always easy, complained Izvestia. Only one man in 30 can find a ready-made suit that will fit him. In a ladies' clothing store on Gorky Street an Izvestia reporter overheard a salesgirl telling a customer: "Your figure is nonstandard, and you won't find anything for yourself." The next 20 customers were likewise nonstandard. The Central Institute of the Garment Industry's explanation...
...wedged so tightly that he could not move his arms. More serious, the air in the passage was foul. As hours passed, Moss alternately gritted his teeth and joked with the men trying to help him. An oxygen mask was lowered, but there was not even room enough to fit it over his face. After four hours he became delirious, finally drifted into unconsciousness...
...visit to Cuba, Figueres had tried hard to fit into the revolutionary mood. He turned out in a baggy khaki uniform left over from his successful Costa Rican revolution of 1948. He arrived early for the big workers' parade in downtown Havana, sat dutifully on the speakers' stand while the unions marched, did not flinch when a drizzle began and Castro ordered the stand's striped tarpaulin ripped away, saying: "If the people...
Author Wilson's heroine is a smart, smug, vastly muddled and grimly girdled figure of middle-class bafflement. Meg Eliot is widowed in a fit of absentmindedness : her husband, a prosperous lawyer, is shot by a confused Asian student, who is really gunning for the Minister of Education of an Indonesian state. "If that had happened when we were young, there would have been a war about it," one character remarks. But there is no war, not even compensation for the widow. Instead, Meg faces only a set of sad second choices-social work, the society of Angry Young...