Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alternative: rest nuclear sovereignty not in individual nations but in the NATO command. This would satisfy the strong national pressure to get defenses out from under direct control of the U.S. It would enable the NATO command to assign each nation to the development of particular nuclear weapons that fit each role in the overall NATO defense picture-e.g., France might specialize in tactical airborne nuclear weapons, West Germany in field weapons...
...business on Jan.1, 1959. "It was the hardest thing I ever did, resigning from the Air Force," says Quesada, "but the law [requiring a civilian head] was clear as hell." The law, by implication, also called for a strong, experienced administrator, and Quesada's whole life and personality fit the law like a made-to-order lock...
When Toronto's Geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson recently crossed the border, he found that it took five hours. After the Russians had switched the train wheels at Otpor to fit China's narrower-gauge tracks, he reported: "The train crept forward in the dark toward the actual border. It was brilliantly floodlit. Soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets were on guard...
...Wednesday night show, Jack Paar considered using the venerable joke, debated with himself (as he later recalled) about whether it was fit for the air waves, won the debate, and proceeded to tell the story. At 10 p.m., the taping of his show completed, Paar went home to Bronxville. And that was the moment when history pointed a relentless finger at Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., a broadcasting veteran (for 15 years vice president at ABC) who had been brought to NBC after the quiz scandals to serve as director of the network's Department of Standards and Practices...
...social system as well as an economic one-a state within a state. "Imperial decisions are ratified in this regal atmosphere," says Earl Latham, professor of political science at Amherst College, "decisions to divide up the U.S., develop Venezuela, support an Arab oligarchy, lengthen cars so that they fit nobody's garage, approve treaties with other satrapies of economic power and influence...