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Word: fitful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these college-age dog owners is their original impetuous purchase. To a couple, they each got their dogs at a time of heady emotion, without considering how impossible it would be to fit the dog into their already cramped lives and crowded apartments...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Two Short Essays | 4/7/1969 | See Source »

...hearts, they appeared to come into direct competition with researchers who had spent years trying to devise an artificial heart. But last week Houston's Dr. Denton A. Cooley, who has transplanted more hearts than any other surgeon, brought the two lines of investigation into a neat, complementary fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transplants: Natural v. Artificial Hearts | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...most common disagreements arise when experts are pressed to take a third step away from the defendant's present condition. With few exceptions, they are asked to decide whether his mental state during the crime made him fit the legal definition of a word which few psychiatrists use: insanity. Under the 126-year-old M'Naghten rule, insanity is not knowing what one is doing, or not knowing that it is wrong. However, many people who can tell right from wrong are nonetheless patients in mental hospitals, and some courts permit more elastic definitions-such as the Durham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Why Psychiatrists Disagree in Court | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...merit, percussive sublimation has the added benefit of justifying the executive who promoted the man to his level of incompetence in the first place. Both this principle and the lateral arabesque point up an inadequacy in C. Northcote Parkinson's well-known law. Work not only expands to fit the time allotted but, says Author Peter, "it can expand far beyond that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: A Glossary of Incompetence | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...personal feelings and actions in the world--is the same. Both films are created, closed works, the setting of La Marseillaise being as purely evocative (again, one couldn't draw a map of the setting) as that o Toni. Into this setting Renoir's characters--Toni, the aristocrats--either fit...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: 'La Marseillaise' | 3/24/1969 | See Source »

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