Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play, Clytemnestra is not depicted as the traditional villainess but, according to Alfred, as "a good woman who, in a fit of rage over the death of her daughter, strikes Agamemnon, whom she blames for the loss...
Chef René Verdon quit the White House kitchen rumbling that California wines are très ordinaires and Lyndon's favorite dishes are fit only for Him. That was too much for California-born Restaurateur Victor Bergeron, 63, better known as Trader Vic for his string of 13 Polynesian eateries around the U.S. He forked over $3,612 to buy a full page in San Francisco's Examiner & Chronicle to baste René in an open letter. A sampling: "By what stretch of the imagination do you think that French cooking is the only cuisine...
...take a job as office boy for the now vanished Cleveland Leader. Within a year, he was writing his own light Sunday column, "By Luee, The Offis Boy." But at 15 he was already a has-been. His city editor fired him and told him he was not fit for journalism...
...free world's copper supply informally banded together to provide an artificial stability in the form of a set world price. Still copper's willful ways seemed uncontainable. A year ago, the companies pegged their price at 32½?, Then, in May, they saw fit to let it hop to 36?. In November 20 more were added-except for companies producing and selling within the U.S., which rolled back to the 36? line at President Johnson's urging. And now, less than three months later, the "fixed" world price had come unstuck again...
...Disturb. Doris Day approaches her career as Hollywood's No. 1 lady moneymaker with a fit sense of responsibility toward what amounts to a public trust. When people go to a Doris Day movie, they apparently want to see an ordinary, aw-shucksy sort of a girl with a sunny disposition and a $100,000 wardrobe, who sooner or later wakes up somewhere and mutters something like: "Paul, what happened last night?" Doris never disappoints...