Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buyer's market." As a result, its standards have been gradually raised, so that many men who would have qualified during World War Two are now rejected. Holmes attacks these higher standards, decries the lack of an induction category for "limited duty" (for men who are not combat fit), and complains that "personnel who in the past have made the best truck drivers and combat soldiers are being denied entrance into the cold-war army...
...little combat experience, served as Army Chief of Staff from 1959 to 1960, then moved up to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy have made little secret of the fact that they feel Lemnitzer does not have the forceful personality to fit the job. Lemnitzer's successor, General George Decker, 59, is a first-rate controller, a crack golfer and a man who has been described as being "as colorless as a bushel basket full of fog." Army Secretary Elvis J. Stahr, on leave from his job as president...
...that Dr. Lewis asked his son to chop on Feb. 23, 1903, were really 4¼ cords, and that on a Canadian trip in 1924 Lewis passed through Goose Lake, Snake Lake, Trout Lake, Clam Lake and Lac la Ronge. Research is the opium of the biographers; when the fit is on them, any fact, no matter how small, must be included just because it is available...
...Bottle. There are the mel ancholy scenes of Lewis' increasing irascibility and wild bouts of drunkenness. In 1941, in an alcoholic fit, he smashed the furniture in his apartment. The doctor summoned Dorothy, by then living elsewhere, and with two male nurses and a straitjacket they carted Lewis off to a hospital. The whole time Lewis screamed, in frenzied parody of his wife: "You are sick, sick . . . Can't you take hold of yourself? . . . Hal, listen, please, this is Dorothy! Hear...
...thought control" as a problem in any Federal aid to higher education. "The Federal Government has clearly not interfered in the direction of Harvard's research projects...The image of a coercive government dictating what shall and shall not be done in university laboratories and libraries simply does not fit Harvard's experience with Washington...