Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many students according to Beecher, accept their 1-A classification with a shrug of resignation even though they completely fit the requirements for 2-S. This is particularly chilling in light of the report's revelation that some local boards are sending 1-A classification to all their students in order to determine who is 2-S on the basis of the expected appeals...
Kupferman and Lehman concur on virtually every major question, from bombing North Viet Nam (they oppose it) to abolishing the House Un-American Activities Committee (in favor). Both candidates fit the liberal, independent mold dear to the hearts of 17th District voters. Party labels mean little there; the Democrats have a registration edge of 38,000, but the district has elected Republican Congressmen since...
...night of the week in London this season, a citizen with a couple of shillings in his pocket and a yen to go to the show could have had a ball. He could also have had a fit trying to make up his mind. Should he see Shaw? There would be four revivals in London in the course of the year, one of them with Sir Ralph Richardson. Coward? Four of his plays would run, with Noel in two of them. Arthur Miller? Sir Alec Guinness just opened in Incident at Vichy. Musicals? Hello, Dolly! has Mary Martin, no less...
Indira is also likely to temper her policies to fit the thoughts of the three men she seems to trust most. They are Food Minister Subramaniam, Defense Minister Chaven and Economist Asoka Mehta. Like her, they are all Socialists, but in 18 years of experience, they have seen that socialism is not always a cure, and is sometimes a curse for India's problems. By inclination, Indira prefers public ownership of plants, but her chief economic adviser, Asoka Mehta, is fully aware that government-owned factories have proved to be far less efficient than private enterprise in India. Indira...
...years the Interstate Sanitation Commission had declared that the waters of Raritan Bay, a sizable hunk of New York Harbor, were fit for swimming, boating and fishing. When the New Republic's new reporter, James Ridgeway, took a look at Raritan in 1963, he came to an opposite conclusion. "Not unlike the environs of the River Styx," he wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities...