Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British Commonwealth nation. It was the Federation of Malaysia, which was to be composed of independent Malaya, self-governing Singapore, and the three British territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo. But at the last moment, the oil-sodden sultanate of Brunei pulled out of the agreement in a fit of pique over the final terms of federation...
Although only a fraction participate, potentially about 450 mental patients could benefit through the summer program, LaMonte said. The Committee encourages volunteers to utilize whatever special skills they have in dealing with individual patients. "We do not try to fit volunteers into a definite structure," he said...
...death throes, the working class in utter misery, and the former colonial peoples well on the road to Communism. Instead, capitalism is thriving, Western workers are going middleclass, and the ex-colonies tend toward Socialism but hardly toward Communism. Nikita Khrushchev favors changing the theory to fit these facts more closely; he is, as Peking accurately charges, a revisionist. Mao Tse-tung favors changing the facts to fit the theory; he is, as Moscow says, a dogmatist...
...youngest son). Though Dev had taught mathematics-and is fervently believed by many fond compatriots to be one of the 13 men on earth who comprehend the theory of relativity-the Taoiseach had neither head nor heart for economics, and left Benjamin to run his ministry as he saw fit...
...parents have known it all along. Jimmy's mother used to be a terrible backseat driver until, in a fit of filial exasperation, he took her around a corner flat-out just to show that everything was under control. She has since learned to relax and wave happily at friends as he tools along at 90 m.p.h. or so-though she still refuses to watch him compete...