Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control, price supports or whatever. Congress would then have the right to kill or approve the plans, but would have no power to rewrite them. Facing certain defeat on this point, the Administration has belatedly offered a compromise proposal to allow Congress to rewrite the programs as it sees fit. But the bill is still in deep trouble...
...most forthright. He opposed the tractor deal on both political and practical grounds. Said he: "Allowing a group of citizens, no matter how well-intentioned they may be, to conduct our foreign affairs once could lead to a repetition of it at any time a foreign Communist leader saw fit to take prisoners and then offered to release them, say for 500 electric shavers or a solid-gold Cadillac or 200 tractors...
...once claimed to have seen a man in black and a hunchbacked woman fashion human flesh out of mysterious chemicals. At another séance, at which the spirits became very annoyed, witnesses reported that "Willie Yeats was banging his head on the table as though he had a fit, muttering to himself." Yeats sometimes primed the medium via telepathy, but he doubtless was not amused by the "seer" who responded: "I have a vision of a square pond, but I can see your thought, and you expect me to see an oblong pond." On another humorously humorless occasion...
...apse was measured, every stone numbered and painstakingly packed in boxes. At The Cloisters, the stones were treated with a secret preservative to protect them against the cold, rain and city smoke. In January 1959 workmen began laying the foundation stones, at first without mortar, to test their fit to the new site. After corrections for the contours of the old site and for the distortions caused by centuries of settling, the walls slowly rose, set this time in a thin layer of mortar. When they reached the high narrow windows, everything fitted perfectly...
...Rivera is the kind of man who can repair a tractor, shoe a horse or fit a pipe, and he did all those things as a youth on his family's Louisiana sugar plantation, where his Spanish-descended father was an engineer in the mill. But the last thing he wanted to do was to spend the rest of his life on a plantation. He went to Chicago, where he happened to pay a visit to the Art Institute and to what is now the Museum of Natural History. There he was so beguiled by a collection of Egyptian...