Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moping dogs -- after Ralph Waldo Emerson's lines: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...
...sense, Guangdong can be viewed like the Soviet Union's Baltic states, the province's relative wealth representing a willingness to stretch the rules to fit whatever works rather than restrain expansion to fit the rules. Left alone, which it may not be, Guangdong will continue to provide the nation with both hard currency and an example of entrepreneurship at full throttle...
...spread back in Brookville. (From his letters home, Polormarchuk's wife Valentina reports that her husband is working hard, has lost several pounds and talks about doing some private farming of his own when he returns to the Soviet Union.) "Mikhail Gorbachev's new proposals ((for liberalizing the economy)) fit in exactly with what we think about independent farming," says Ralph Dull. "We were very interested in the changes taking place in Soviet agriculture, and we wanted to be part of that change...
...this Adams House burglary, like recent ones in Weld and Dunster, only items which could fit in a shopping bag were stolen--in this case a camera, jewelery and cash. A stereo, small CD-player and numerous CDs were left untouched, residents of the room said...
...just looking forward to getting my hand fixed, get really fit and give it one last shot," Kenney says. "It still hurts [the wrist] when I take the shots. This will allow me to train a lot harder...