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Word: fitful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approved last night by the Council, the newly authorized body will plan publicity and recommend possible procedure for the fund-raising campaign. It will be up to the Council to act on these recommendations or not, as it sees fit...

Author: By Mark H. Alcott, | Title: Council Sets Charity Fund Improvement | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

...control, the rivalry between the territory's two leading politicians was kept in hand. The flamboyant Abbé Fulbert Youlou-a Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation on its own. When the time came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO REPUBLIC: On Their Own | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...What well-educated natives," exclaimed a Midwestern matron upon arrival in the old British island of Jamaica. "They all speak English." ("What robbers!" she cried after her first taxi ride.) Everyone tried to fit in, and the first purchase was usually a hat-sometimes a yard wide, sometimes a yard high. But one visitor to San Juan, stepping briskly across the lobby of the Condado Beach Hotel in his floppy straw hat, checkered sports jacket, shorts, suede shoes and sunglasses, had a moment of self-doubt. "Do I look too much like a tourist?" he asked a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: Havens of Happiness | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...freshman defense forms the weakest part of the squad, although it suffers from comparison with the top-notch attack. With three high-scoring lines, the freshmen may fit in quite well next year, since the varsity has a promising defense combination in two sophomores, Bob Anderson and Greg Downes, and junior Mike Graney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...foamed at the mouth a bit. Obviously, some sort of fit was on him again...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Mother's Ruin | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

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