Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Editor Zweig has only one taboo: he refuses to run any articles with an ideological ax to grind. "Readers can take our ideas and fit them into their own ideologies," he says. "We are in the rationality business...
...relax. Never have clothes been more stylish, well-made and-more to the point-wearable. As always, they are suited to the American woman's casual, active way of life, which has made comfort, simplicity and an effortless fit the hallmark of U.S. clothing everywhere. More important, as the American woman's tastes and interests have become increasingly varied and sophisticated, the $15 billion-a-year U.S. industry has learned how to create a distinctively "American look" not only for sportswear and daytime outfits-long American specialties -but in formal ball gowns and cocktail dresses as well...
...century doctors who tried water mattresses constructed on the same principle. But like its predecessors, the Weinstein-Davidson product weighed in at an impractical, beam-breaking 3,000 Ibs. The doctors did not give up, though, and lightweight improvements on their design, manufactured by the Scott Paper Co., now fit standard hospital beds. The hollowed-out, foam-rubber mattresses have inserted plastic sacs that fit patients like a cloud and allow their weight to be distributed so uniformly over the supporting surface that they would not even break eggs...
Speed & Reliability. Though creation of the microscopic circuits marks a triumph of miniaturization for an industry that is obsessed with Lilliputian dimensions, the negligible weight and small size of the ICs (more than 9,000 will fit in a thimble) are even less important than their reliability, low cost and speed of operation...
...Finley arms her students with a dictionary and a Roget's Thesaurus, finds that both become thoroughly thumbed as the children seek synonyms to fit the rigid line scheme, stretching their vocabularies. To keep them searching, she bans such overworked words as fine, nice, pretty and good. Mrs. Finley is not alone in trying to teach writing in 17 hard syllables: the National Council of Teachers of English reports that haiku are turning up in classrooms throughout the country. Creating a haiku, teachers have found, expands a child's imagery, provides a quick sense of accomplishment because...