Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this country Jewish scholars, especially psychologists, then living in Nazi Germany. During the war, he was one of the founders of the Boston Herald's "Rumor Clinics," and he began a systematic survey of rumor mongering--ignoring a feeling among some of his colleagues that it was not a fit area for precise professional study...
...racket reverberated briskly from an article in the magazine Washingtonian contending that there were seven good tennis players in the Senate, only one of whom-New York's Jacob Javits, 63-is a Republican. When Pennsylvania's Democrat Joseph Clark saw fit to mention the matter on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Howard Baker netted five other tautly strung Republicans for doubles duty in something called the U.S. Senate Tennis championship. The Washingtonian knew what it was talking about. Democrats Clark and Claiborne Pell (R.I.) knocked off Illinois' Charles Percy and South Carolina's Strom Thurmond...
...average investor, put and call options have always ranked as one of the stock market's more unfathomable sideshows. Despite a lingering taint as a game best fit for crapshooters, the option business this year has swelled to unprecedented size in line with both Wall Street's speculative fever and the sharp rise in total trading. Last month the volume of options written so far in 1967 climbed to 16,264,900 shares, eclipsing the old record of 15,418,200 shares...
...second and threw to first for the double play. The old man was spiked. So he was replaced--by Andrews. And in the last inning Andrews made the very same play. He was also dumped by the runner. Being younger, however, he was not hurt. Everything fit...
...commercials. Teenagers whom I remembered as juvenile delinquents had been transformed into flabby facists by the Record American and television commercials. And students from intown colleges, fat thighs wrapped in white levis, yellow shirt-tails dangling, would make good followers for bad leaders. We were a motley crew, hardly fit to pay homage at the temple...