Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere between the arts and the Liberal Party, he has managed to fit in a career as a publisher with William Collins Co.--"they publish everything from the Bible to Agatha Christie," he says...
Broken Windows. After the visiting Communist VIPs filed onstage beneath a giant silvery head of Lenin embossed on purple plastic, the 13 members of the Soviet Party Presidium came on from stage left, headed by a fit-looking, somewhat thinner Nikita Khrushchev. "I propose we begin to work," said Party Secretary Khrushchev briskly. "The 22nd Congress is now in session...
...cited the case of a typical Pedro who leaves his village and comes to the city, where he loses his face and his name and suddenly becomes a man who does not fit. What' kind of help does Pedro want? He wants help from someone who shares his life, someone who loves...
...room, $150,000 ranch house, Jones starts each day simply by "lying in bed and just thinking for half an hour-it's a time when my objectivity is at its best." Then he plunges into a furious round of keep-fit exercises (25 pushups, 25 knee bends, ten laps in the pool), downs his standard breakfast (half a grapefruit, five strips of bacon, tea), slips into an Ivy League grey suit (sometimes flashing it up with his gold cuff links that are shaped like tiny T-38 jets), and pilots a company Cadillac to headquarters...
...people are better qualified than Hindus for such a work; born a Russian, he is fluent in the language, and an unaggressive manner of interviewing-rare among journalists-puts him fully at ease with the people, While the great Insider, John Gunther, complains in a fit of frustration that "most [Russian] citizens, in talk with an outsider, always say that everything is perfect," Hindus blithely explodes the "myth" of Soviet taciturnity with a plethora of frank interviews...