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Word: fitful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unknown, notably the course of the Viet Nam war, the identity of his Republican rival and the condition of the presidential humors seven or eight months hence. This week, however, as Johnson starts his 1968 legislative-political calendar with the annual State of the Union message, general plans to fit all contingencies are emerging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Five Ways for LBJ. | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...high wall of concrete and clay blocks the Nile 560 miles upstream from Cairo. Because Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev decided not to come as planned and sent a deputy instead. Gamal Abdel Nasser made it even more of a Soviet show by staying away in a fit of pique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Arms for Embracing | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...Arab leaders shows any desire to become a Russian satellite. In fact, Nasser and some other leaders would like to find a saving formula by which they could re-establish relations with the U.S. and thus resume their balancing act between Russians and Americans. Washington has so far seen fit not to respond to such hints, but the time must come when, if it does not want the Russians to tighten their hold on Arabia irretrievably, the U.S. must try to restore American influence in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Arms for Embracing | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...press conference, De Gaulle wrote a three-page justification of his remarks to former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion. He had really meant it as a compliment, said le grand Charles, when he described the Jews as "an elite, sure of themselves and domineering." De Gaulle likes people who fit that description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Compliment | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...student's program couldn't be fit into any department, but was judged to have academic merit, Dean Ford or the CEP would set up an ad hoc Committee on degrees--effectively allowing the student to create his own major...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Students May Design Own Major Fields | 1/15/1968 | See Source »

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