Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from California got into politics almost by accident, and the suave aristocrat from Boston absorbed his political heritage with mother's milk. Yet, despite their differences, the two 1960 Republican nominees have an uncommon lot in common, and on the G.O.P.'s presidential medallion their two profiles fit the times and the issues with minted precision...
Wedding Cake. Last week he found a taker: the Uris Building Corp., headed by Brothers Percy and Harold Uris. New York's biggest builders, the Urises have studded the city with wedding-cake office buildings, shaped to fit tightly inside the New York building code "envelope" and provide a maximum of space and a minimum of aesthetics. Zeckendorf's sale price for the lease: $4,500,000. Uris brothers thought they had a good deal, since so much had already been spent in foundation work on the site. Whether Zeckendorf made or lost money and how much...
...City Divided. Expecting to stop the Japanese at the frontiers of Siam, British commanders in Malaya had never seen fit to fortify the island city of Singapore. Only when the Japanese began their inexorable push down the Malay Peninsula did Winston Churchill learn to his amazement that the island was barely defended to its north, and later bitterly recalled: "I ought to have known, and I ought to have been told, and I ought to have asked...
...cadaverous looks, his rise to Olympus as Roosevelt's closest adviser. But these traits clothe a synthetic creature wholly unlike Hopkins in his private involvements and far duller than Harry in his political intrigues. Much, of the book is taken up with Ivey's having a mysterious fit in wartime London (he has them all the time). The Old Country peasant remedy that can save him is known only to the book's heroine, Julie, the suicide's younger sister, a girl of indomitable goodness of heart and boundless puerility. Ben, of course...
...Millions of Americans who voted for President Eisenhower [may] balk at electing his successor. For, just as historians tell us that Richard I was not fit to fill the shoes of the bold Henry II, and that Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle, they might add in future years that Richard Nixon did not measure up to the footsteps of Dwight D. Eisenhower...