Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Love died last fall as .the waning flow of tourists sent the hippies panhandling, selling papers, drifting into the drug trade. Said the survey: "Love didn't necessarily fit if you hadn't had a meal in two days." This spring, City Supervisor Roger Boas warns: "My advice to kids around the country is not to come here. There must be hippie havens other than San Francisco." But flower beds are scarce all over. New York City's East Village scene now seems as loveless as that in the Haight. As Los Angeles' underground newspaper Open...
...enemy. Our capability in this regard has improved ever since. With respect to the U.S. lack of experience in guerrilla warfare, I believe our military men have performed magnificently. They quickly learned the tactics and techniques of jungle and rice-paddy fighting, and stateside training was rapidly adapted to fit the situation. Today I consider our soldiers and Marines considerably more proficient in the type of combat that occurs in Viet Nam than the North Vietnamese troops and better than most Viet Cong units...
Similar "air shed" action is starting between some smog-bound states and is considered preferable to federally imposed air standards, which might not fit local climate conditions. Still, far greater federal action-especially money-is urgently needed to help cities build all kinds of waste-treating facilities. In fact, the Secretary of the Interior really ought to be the Secretary of the Environment. To unify federal leadership, he might well be given charge of the maze of rival federal agencies that now absurdly nibble only at their own slice of the pollution mess...
...York Times had told its story, the one "That's fit to print," and I was going down to Columbia to see it in person, so I pondered over the stewardess's remark as I left the plane. At which point, the middle age adult buyer turned and pointed his finger at me. "Hey buddy, when you take over buddy, I'm over on something and something street, and I've got a 30-30 rifle. Be sure and come over...
...when she can give shiny-eyed grins that reduce her to a caricature coquette. Amateurish cutting and arbitrary shifts from color to black and white mutilate the film. Moreover, the dubbing is disastrous: the actors' faces show feelings far more profound than the dull words that cannot quite fit their mouths...