Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of the stage is deepening." That one sour note was enough for Birgit to conclude that London is a town with rocks in its head. Cried she caustically: "I will not sing the part again in London until I'm more matured." But it was merely a fit of pique: at week's end Birgit was back on the London stage...
...remaining Labour M.P.'s will probably follow the example of K. Zilliacus, one of their number who declared the other day that "Mr. Gaitskell's arrogance and fanaticism and hydrogen-bomb strategy mean that he is not fit to lead the party and will have to go." This group may propose to replace Gaitskell with Harold Wilson, a non-leftist who is nonetheless unlikely to quarrel with the conference...
...Yorkers-125,000 of them-lined the streets to cheer him and to wave placards (WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU, IKE) as if he were a fighter climbing into the ring. Even the customary show of political partisanship was gone; Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, who had never seen fit to greet the President on past visits, rode into town with...
...foods. Under this program, farmers would get grain from the Government to feed to livestock and poultry; the meat, milk and eggs produced would be channeled into foreign and domestic giveaway programs. The farmer would get his compensation in additional surplus grain, to sell or use as he saw fit...
...tries to give each client a distinctive building. Yet he does not kowtow to his client's every wish: when a New York company asked him to design a building similar to Capitol Records', he turned it down on the ground that the building would not fit its needs...