Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashions-and were conquered. Eagerly they hustled up and down from one S.R.O. showroom to another in Manhattan's garment district, where as many as 45 showings per day crammed the schedule. The designers played up what the fashion buffs call "wearability" (sensible clothes that fit in pretty well with any style or season) and "packability" (fresh emphasis on lightweight and non-crush, drip-dry convenience fabrics). There was a smart swing to dresses made from printed scarf material, dresses with matching jackets, and two-layer "tunics," i.e., a sheath ending above the knee, with a longer sheath...
...choosing the Kirkland location, White said, the members of the Department rejected an area between Dunster and Holyoke Streets in what will be the scondary construction stage of the new Medical Center. They turned down the Dunster Street site because "we couldn't fit into it very well." In its design as an office building, "there will be no spaces large enough for seminar rooms," White pointed...
...unhappy wife, married to a simple, but unappreciative husband who is a newspaper editor in Dijon. She deserts him first for Paris, then for a lover, and finally for her true love. The moral of all this seems to be that love's laurels go to the physically fit...
...about the theater, will not be kind...kindness is the worst sort of cruelty." With a laugh she added, "I myself am kind. I could never be a reviewer. But Kenneth Tynan writes the best reviews today...I once asked him whether he thought up his clever phrases to fit the actors and he answered that the actors definitely inspired the phrases...Kenneth (Tynan) really cares and he is never boring...
...finds himself rejected by the electorate--as Adlai Stevenson has learned on two occasions. Instead of providing a quadrennial forum of intelligent discusison of the nation's problems, the Presidential election usually degenerates into a puerile contest between rival slogans and personalities, with the real issues thrust aside as fit topics only for columnists and professors. The people seem to prefer well-meaning mediocrity to well-reasoned policy...