Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office of Vice President has often been deemed, especially by men who held it, a job fit only for a nonentity. It was called "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" (John Adams, the first Vice President), "a fifth wheel to the coach" (Theodore Roosevelt), "as useful as a cow's fifth teat" (Harry Truman), and not worth a "pitcher of warm spit" (John Nance Garner...
Austin has also managed to make Engstrom into a real slap-stick figure who does not fit in with the play, G. Quay Quenel does not act the part badly, but the part should have been totally different. That Manders can be taken in by such a buffoon exceeds belief. Etain O'Malley is better as Engstrom's daughter, Regina, especially when she remains sprightly but mute...
Having delivered more than 200 P104 Starfighters to the Luftwaffe, Lockheed saw its program coming to an end in Germany, and was anxious to sell the Germans something else-its C-130 Hercules transport, one model of which the company had specially revamped to fit certain German requirements. All that Lockheed had to do was persuade Bonn to drop a planned Franco-German project to build the Transall turboprop transport. But the Germans could not drop Transall-for Transport Alliance-without affronting the French, who have already ordered 50 planes. Germany's renascent airframe industry, also, needs the work...
...teeth, Diego painted exuberantly from dawn to dusk. His only diversion was the women who gathered below to watch him work. Over the years he made love to scores of them, including a tigress-tempered beauty named Guadalupe Marin, who once tore up several of his paintings in a fit of jealousy and on another occasion threatened to shoot off his right...
Ferris' report will be distributed in the next week to all the deans and Masters "to take action as they see fit." It will also be available at the University Health Services...