Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced last week that it will ship 900,000 tons of wheat and sorghum to India, to relieve the agonies of that country's second straight year of drought. The emergency allotment will serve to dispel reports that President Johnson has delayed new food outlays because of a fit of personal pique over Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's speeches against U.S. policy in Viet Nam. It will assure the eastward flow of food along the so-called "bridge of boats" until March and feed millions in the northern state of Bihar and other places where the rice crop...
...puritanical figure in the coalition government that took office last month. He has never run for election and has never before accepted a government office of any kind, preferring always to remain in the background. Until recently, he operated out of an office so small that he could fit in only one visitor at a time. For the past eight years, however, he has been deputy chairman-and the organizational brains-of Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party...
...spot a dropping shoulder); it takes eight minutes just to get the rig on, after which Norton spends up to half an hour taking 25 separate measurements. "If they were standing at attention at the beginning, they relax by the end; so the risk of missing a comfortable fit is less," explains Norton...
...dragging in from rehearsal,' and I could hear the birds singing in the background." Julie's mother cannot understand why Walton would not move permanently to Hollywood to work, but Tony would not settle for a career of being Mr. Julie Andrews. "Some husbands of stars can fit into the 'agent-manager' role," he says, but "I'm not agently inclined, and there's the other thing-pride-involved...
...merely cute. Incredible that it was written by one of Britain's most brilliant playwrights, Harold Pinter (The Caretaker, The Homecoming). Did he do it to make money? No doubt, but he also did it to make propaganda. Editing the facts of life in modern Germany to fit an evident prejudice, Pinter blandly but incessantly insinuates that all Germans are still Nazis at heart and can hardly wait to go to heil again...