Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revisionism"-a Communist dirty word for any deviation from Moscow's line-and "viciously slanders the socialist camp." Its "evolutionary views," said the Chinese with a hint that the Yugoslavs should get themselves new leaders, "harbor a wild attempt to induce surrender to capitalism [and] fit in exactly with what the imperialists and particularly the American imperialists need." A few days later, after a full Central Committee meeting in Moscow, Pravda warned that if Yugoslavia's rulers think the Soviet Union is taking advantage of its economic relations with their country, they can be "relieved of such...
...attractions, Prince Juan Carlos became one himself as women employees of the Library of Congress pressed noses against windows to watch him pass. He attended an embassy reception and parties given by Mrs. Merriweather Post and Perle Mesta. A dinner guest wondered if his extensive military training would help fit him to be King. "Madame," smiled the prince, "it is charming of you to ask such a question, but it is my father who is going to be King...
...step I suggested." The faces of party members were wreathed with smiles, but Nehru was grim: "An atmosphere is growing in India that I found not only disturbing but suffocating." His own work had come to be the work of "some kind of robot or automaton ... I was physically fit but getting querulous. I sense coarseness and vulgarity growing in our public life. In the Congress Party and the whole country idealism is fading out. We in India suffer from a split personality. One part is of the highest moral standard. The other part completely forgets about...
...news that the New York Times has never seen fit to print was a statement of its annual earnings and condition. Last week, in a detailed story on its financial page, the Times broke precedent and published its first annual report. With characteristic reserve, the Times announced that its ledger had been kept in good, black ink ever since 1896, when it was bought by the late Adolph Ochs for $75,000. Total profits...
...took to print in his own defense. Too much violence? Answers Fleming in the Manchester Guardian: true to "real spy-life." Too much sex? Replies Fleming: "Perhaps Bond's blatant heterosexuality is a subconscious protest against the current fashion for sexual confusion." Too much snobbery? "I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props ... I myself abhor Wine-and-Foodmanship. My own favorite food is scrambled eggs." Yet, though he has never been known to kick anyone in the groin, and fancies his own Ford Thunderbird over a Bentley, Author Fleming strikes his friends as "awfully like Bond...