Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also psychologically more in tune with smaller nations who think their problems so vast and their time so short that they do not trust free enterprise alone. Besides, says one Israeli official, "we are working on the same scale as other small nations, and our shoes happen to fit them...
...many an African country can attest, it is proving a comfortable fit. When Ghana won her freedom from Britain three years ago, Israel's Zim Navigation Co. jumped in with a complete, ready-to-go merchant fleet-the Black Star Line-which saved Ghana so much in foreign exchange that the Nkrumah government recently was able to buy out Zim's 40% share. The Israelis are happy to sell out, and often wind up with a brokerage fee or a managerial contract. Liberia is employing Israeli construction firms on its new $3,500,000 Ducor Palace Hotel, which...
...blood pressure is high, my heart doesn't work properly. In spite of the strength of my will, these troubles may not allow me to resist the longtime hardships of prison life. But if I should die during my detention, I shall consider it a fit end to a life of idealistic struggle, for I have still not lost a particle of hope regarding the future of Turkey." At week's end, his health failing but his will still unbowed, old Ahmed Emin Yalman was moved from prison to an Istanbul hospital with a heart ailment...
...nation's toughest conference across the board, have feuded with faculties determined to tone down the heavy emphasis on sports. Last week faculty representatives voted to cancel the 14-year pact with the Rose Bowl (where Big Ten teams won twelve times). In an apparent fit of petulance, the athletic directors then recommended abolishing all post-season competition in all sports, including the prestigious N.C.A.A. championships in basketball, swimming and track. The faculty representatives promptly supported the proposal. If finally ratified by the individual universities, the ban would confine Big Ten teams to winning the championship of none...
...last week were confronted with a tragedy as grave as the separation of sauce hollandaise-an eruption of Gallic temperament that temporarily closed Le Pavilion, considered by many the best French restaurant in the U.S. and by all check signers, among the most expensive (consommé: $2). In a fit of pique, Pierre Franey quit as Le Pavilion's head chef after Owner Henri Soulé demanded that he cut five hours of overtime off the work week of the kitchen staff in order to slash the operating expenses of the restaurant. An artist of the kitchen, Franey refused...