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Word: fitful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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August in Brazil, by tradition and local superstition, is a miserable month. It was August when President Getúlio Vargas shot himself in 1954, and when President Janio Quadros put out to sea in a fit of pea-green pique in 1961. Blaming Brazil's ills on the calendar is like blaming winter on the woolly bear; but last week, as Brazilians watched their potentially prosperous country sink deeper into economic and political con fusion, it must have been August's fault. It could hardly be President João Goulart's; he hadn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Blame August | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...that climaxed with the building of the Berlin Wall. When he ordered military readiness to demonstrate his determination to Khrushchev, the President was shocked to find that the Army was in a lower state than he had supposed. The Army repeatedly had to borrow equipment from one unit to fit out another. Reserve units called to duty found they had no weapons. Kennedy decided to get started on building up the Army: he called General Taylor from retirement, made him a military troubleshooter and later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Join the Army And Feel Elite | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...that the Salt Lake colony finished its famous 8,000-seat tabernacle, built to house the choir's sound of worshipful music. The tabernacle was and is an acoustical masterpiece, in which one can hear a pin drop 250 ft. away. The choir grew to fit the building and to become the most powerful unofficial missionary that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever had. Beginning in 1929," Sunday after Sunday the half-hour radio show known as Music and the Spoken Word from the Crossroads of the West reshaped the world's image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mormons: Singing Saints | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

...King fit the battle of Alabam, Birmingham, Alabam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Music: They Hear America Singing | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...King fit the battle of Alabam, And the Bull got nasty, ghastly nasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Music: They Hear America Singing | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

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