Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interpreter used some phrases which, in their abbreviated forms, would fit nicely into a new Chinese calendar. The general idea was that "Before the Revolution" (B.R.) everything in China was worse than Satan's lair but "After the Revolution" (A.R.) Mao Tse-Tung made everything beautiful for the previously downtrodden, starving and homeless Chinese peasantry...
...debate over the First Amendment prompts one to propose that the cult of a free press with "objective" reporting of "all the news that's fit to print" can become just as dogmatic as the dogma of papal infallibility in Roman Catholicism, or finding the "correct" party line in Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Freud have virtually destroyed the doctrine of detached objectivity and have instead shown how people think or react according to their social class or emotional needs...
Henry Kissinger in many ways is still more presidential aide than Secretary of State. He seems to fit a little better back in his corner office of the White House West Wing. He is almost too short (5 ft. 8 in.), and his double chin gets out of control too easily (much to his distress) for him to look the part of a bona fide Secretary. Most important, he still relishes the simplified atmosphere of the White House, where he can hang up the gilded epaulets of the State Department, roll up his sleeves, and work...
...disagrees in its commission report: "The issue is not whether NBC or any other licensee or network is free to deal with an issue as it sees fit, but whether it may constitutionally be required to present the views of others who may see the issue from a different perspective." It says that NBC is not obliged to air an hour program on happy pensioners, only to offer defenders of the system the "reasonable opportunity" to speak demanded by the fairness doctrine. As an FCC spokesman puts it: "It's a simple fairness-doctrine case...
...Gulf oil that used to be shipped through the Suez on tankers. Moreover, some oil company officials claim that the cheapest way of all to transport oil is in supertankers too big to run the canal. Even so, a third of the world's tanker tonnage can still fit through the Big Ditch, and for those vessels the sailing time between Persian Gulf ports and Western Europe could be cut to about 14 days from the present 30 days around the Cape of Good Hope. In addition, traders as far away as India and Pakistan would reap immediate shipping...