Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were overjoyed to see that our Eve Disconsolate by Hiram Powers received a pat on the back in TIME [the sculpture re-established the nude as a fit subject for U.S. artists] but were disconsolate to find no mention of its owner, the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers...
Asked at the end of the meeting whether he could fit into a Volkswagen, the tall, heavy man replied, "Surely." Then, for the benefit of only those nearby, he quipped, "I probably can't get out, however...
...process which has operated on other aspects of American society. A great legion of well-intentioned clods has materialized as a result. This is a legion that threatens to destroy any highbrow culture that remains in this country; for the middlebrow ruthlessly appropriates highbrow literature and cuts it to fit the well-worn grooves of his own mind. The middlebrow belongs to book clubs that describe the Iliad as "Homer's immortal masterpiece"; he thinks in terms of "truth" and "universals"; he reads The Saturday Review...
Certainly Touré needed help from somewhere; for when Guinea voted itself out of the French community, France in a fit of pique cut off all aid. But when the U.S. proffered assistance more than a year ago, Touré was not much interested. Washington's standard aid contract violated Guinea's sovereignty, he said. He objected to clauses that would guarantee U.S. aid officials who worked in Guinea immunity from taxes and that require Guinea to state its other sources of aid. He balked at U.S. insistence on scrutinizing Guinea's proposed aid projects to make...
After several vain attempts to quiet the 20,000 people jammed into the Garden (no more could have fit), State party chairman John M. Lynch began speaking into the microphone...