Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been simply copied from extreme-left Paris papers which have taken me as their favorite aim because my political action up to May last proved a stumbling block to their policy of surrender in North Africa. I feel it is a pity that an American magazine should think it fit to feed its readers that sort of unwholesome stuff. What, may I ask, would America and indeed the whole free world gain if Algeria fell into the hands of anti-Western fanatics...
...trying to follow them -according to their own interpretations. A liberal Republican said he and those like him should show their muscles ; a forgotten Republican did handsprings trying to trip up an old enemy. But the most exciting activities were the nip-ups of six Democrats trying to fit the election returns into their own futures. They were scattered across the world and, individually, they practiced political yoga in Puerto Rico, foreign-policy pushups in Paris, telephone calisthenics in Texas, crosscountry running from California, deep-breathing exercises in New Jersey, and the running broad jump in Alaska. For their wondrous...
...necessary to ask why the institutions exist. The answer seems to be that in their college system there is nowhere else for the Yalies to drink and be social. As one New Haven collegian is quoted in his press as saying, "I joined a fraternity because I couldn't fit a bar in my room." Other reasons seem to be prestige, ambition and the desire subsequently join to a secret society...
...example: though Green Eyes calls himself "alone," he has had a never-completely-defined relationship with a woman on the outside. He suggests that Maurice's fascination with him is "for her. Am I wrong? When you looked at me, it was just to find out how our bodies fit together." Maurice has said earlier to Green Eyes, "Just seeing her through you drives me almost nuts," and Green Eyes has answered, "I make a nice couple, eh?" Still earlier, Lefranc says sneeringly to Maurice of Green Eyes, "...I didn't talk about him as if he were a young...
...Square is living modern. With nearby Quincy a geometrical tombstone to Georgian elegance, Cronin's due to explode into a seven-story hygenic skyscraper, and the Harvard Trust new-faced with fresh brick and steel, the Square sloughs off its gingerbread and tries to make "form fit function...