Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the last two minutes that the stroke oar alters his stopwatch planning to fit the situation. Then, if he is behind, he stakes everything on a final sprint to the finish. This is the most crucial and exciting part of the race, for the oarsmen are already dead tired, and a higher stroke increases the chance of a mistake...
Music in Moscow. Only at home in Moscow did the Communists have a really bang-up May Day. Premier Stalin, fit and smiling, climbed atop Lenin's tomb to receive the thundering cheers of Muscovites. Overhead, more than 250 jet planes, including some impressive new models vaunted as the fastest in the world, whooshed past in impeccable formation. In the lead plane was Major General Vasily J. Stalin, the Generalissimo...
...never missed a day's duty because of illness. In his plainly furnished office, he works seven days a week, composing directives by hand (he does not like to dictate) and buzzing for his aides when he wants them (he has banned telephones from his desk). He looks fit and much younger than his years; his hair, flecked with grey, is usually carefully brushed to cover a bald spot. The General lives sedately with his alert, unaffected wife (19 years his junior) and their sturdy eleven-year-old son, Arthur MacArthur, in the palatial U.S. embassy...
...Great Lakes ore carrier, and increased its holdings of Pittston Co., one of the world's largest coal producers. Wall Streeters also gossiped that Young was casting a buying eye on Western Union and American Express Co., which he thought he could get cheap. Both would fit nicely into his transportation kingdom. For landing big fish like these, Bob Young was readying...
Most of the stories fit what people like to call the New Yorker pattern: sharp photographic action--glaringly-lit scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them...