Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, local boards are limited by the availability of fit males in their districts. Deferments are thus dished out on a strictly backyard basis. If an area runs out of nonessential, healthy single men. it is forced to move on to more essential healthy single men-such as students. Another board in another part of the U.S. may have enough 24-year-old out-of-school bachelors to last the entire Viet Nam period...
...local control of U.S. education. Far from trying to undercut local educators, Washington has taken great pains to ensure that the functions of planning and decision making remain in their hands. Roughly $1 billion of the money goes to local boards of education to spend as they see fit on children of the poor, and millions more are aimed at strengthening state boards of education so that they can frame their own programs in the future...
Though a Rumanian Foreign Ministry spokesman blandly denied that such a letter had been circulated, there was little doubt of its existence. Its corrosive contents fit perfectly with the nationalistic attitudes of Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu, whose stinging anti-Soviet speech only a week earlier had triggered a flying visit from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
Tubs are now fit for no one. They should be longer and contoured to the bather's body. More hand holds and a nonslip surface are needed to reduce accidents. Since washing in dirty water is a poor way to get clean, hand sprays are proposed to allow bathers to step out of the tub completely cleansed...
...with a wonderful country freshness. In her 50s she extended her mastery. Her ideas, her images became ever more exact and effective. "The dog lay down with a great rumble and thump that sounded like a bag of potatoes being emptied"-"At the windows hung some nasty little curtains fit for wrapping abortions...