Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in 1956, Corey and two friends had put up $30,000 each to lease an old lumber warehouse near Portland and fit it up for storing grain. In three years the partners harvested profits of $83,000 apiece. Last week, too sick from bleeding ulcers to be present in the courtroom, Corey was convicted by a federal jury in Portland of violating conflict-of-interest laws...
...London's Savile Row, debate raged on whether a man's trousers should be his brassière or his hinge; see FOREIGN NEWS, Fit for Kings...
...Artists in 1953, he prodded his fellow Red lettermen: "The heroes of our fiction are drab and colorless creatures of abstraction. Many of our artists still lack the courage to write about the contradictions in our social life. They turn our rich experience into one-sided affairs, molded to fit an arid formula...
...Miller's novel, each chapter forms a short story in itself. The incidents are self-contained, although the characters move throughout the book and all the limits fit into a larger story. The counter-pointed stories, which concern two groups of boys who grew up in New York City, have been praised by three College Professors, Monroe Engle '42, Albert J. Guerard, and Archibald MacLeish...
...Paris newspaper readers have been startled in recent weeks by two well-circulated pictures that seemed to symbolize the terrors of the cold war. Hanging from the neck of a dapper U.S.A.F. major was a set of keys. Next to him was a picture of the lock they fit on the control board of a Thor missile emplacement. The starkly simple marking on the switch: War and Peace...