Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sloss and the directors plan to reblock several scenes to fit into WGBH's limited studio area before taping the opera...
With 120-m.p.h. winds and torrential rains lashing San Francisco, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick waded through a Candlestick Park that the groundskeeper called "fit only for synchronized swimming," kept calling off the sixth game between the Giants and Yankees, thus making the 1962 World's Series the most oft-postponed since the six-day wait in 1911 when the Giants were playing the Philadelphia Athletics...
Raytheon has high hopes for its near-microscopic microphone. Aside from countless possible uses in industry or the entertainment world or even in spacecraft, the microphone could certainly be used to great advantage in hearing aids, which could be made small enough to fit invisibly inside the ear. A hearing aid could be made even smaller, but the scientists feel that too small a device might get lost in the ear canal...
...seven years as leader of the Opposition, Hugh Gaitskell has fought hard to make the squabbling, divided socialists fit to govern. Last week, for the first time, he finally won the support of a virtually united, confident Labor Party. But he did so by taking a shortsighted, narrow-minded stand on the vital issue of British entry into the Common Market-a stand that ranges Gaitskell alongside the most abject left-wingers in his own party and the most bullheaded jingoists on the Tory side. As he prepared to lead his party into a general election that may be less...
...clear mountain torrent in Colorado. It dwindles and almost dies while crossing the Kansas plains. Fed by tributaries, it meanders in great twists and turns through Oklahoma and Arkansas. It is one of America's muddiest rivers. Because of its sewage, silt and salt, the water is not fit for swimming, drinking or irrigation. In fact, the 1,450-mile Arkansas River is good only for the huge channel catfish, which have literally pulled fishermen into its muck...