Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his 72 years, Tito himself looked remarkably fit, and his hair, doubtless with the help of his barber, still showed scarcely any grey. He betrayed his age only by taking a 45-minute recess midway in his three-hour speech; in the old days, Tito could go on for hours without getting winded...
Though "sex is not synonymous with obscenity," he said, Fanny Hill makes it so. "Free rein," Judge Pashman added, "should not be given under the guise of constitutional guarantees to vilely depict perversions and sexual adventures as John Cleland saw fit 200 years ago. This is not the way to a better constitutional world; it is rather the path to decay and decline. The Constitution should not be the sword of the shameful profiteer of filth. It must be the shield to protect our sense of moral decency." Next testing station: the New Jersey Supreme Court, which will have...
...Holbrook's Nazi officer has a fit of rage that is not-believable: and the climactic duologue between Wiseman and David Wayne (an Austrian prince) would gain in power if director Clurman would not encourage them to inflated and operatic hamming...
...last month, Dr. Hastings had hopes of winning the first damage verdict in the history of the tobacco-cancer controversy. His hopes began to fade when Judge Emett C. Choate started his charge to the jury. Implied warranty, explained the judge, only meant that the product must be "reasonably fit and safe for the ordinary purpose for which it was sold." The issue, he continued, was not whether Green died of cigarette-induced cancer; another jury had decided that. This jury was simply to determine whether "a large segment, a responsible segment, a significant number" of smokers were endangered...
...That's Negative!" When one of Poling's grandchildren asked him, "How does it feel to be old?" he replied, "How should I know?" He is fit and trim. Light brown eyes twinkle beneath great bushy eyebrows. Says he of his approach to life: "I have always had faith in God, and trust in Him. Daily I repeat to myself, 'I believe.' I could say, 'I doubt, I deny'-but that's negative. It's a tragedy that we should spend our living on the negative side...