Word: fitness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Know Your Weapon. Meany quoted a statement by General Motors President Harlow Curtice (in the current Look): "I no longer see any reason why sales of cars and other peacetime products to the Soviet bloc cannot be increased as long as such sales fit in with U.S. State Department policies." Said Meany: "Doesn't Mr. Curtice realize that to the Iron Curtain rulers, to the Communist warlords, foreign trade is not so much an economic undertaking, as we know it in the free world, but rather a political weapon to be used against...
Outsiders can see why we worship Curtice. He is successful. He heads the outfit that did more trumpeting, and gorged the style-frantic buyer with more overpowered automobiles than can fit on U.S. roads today...
...loss of jobs (there has been a 25% cutback in jobs at one plant since 1951). It has asked for "satisfactory ground rules" to control the studies but hard-pressed Westinghouse refused on the ground that it had to have a free hand to manage as it saw fit. In essence, both sides are fighting over security...
...keep him company, Rainier had his friend, Chaplain Tucker, who was visibly delighted with the match. Rainier, said the priest, was smitten the first time he saw Grace on the screen. She seemed to fit exacting specifications for a bride (TIME, Dec. 26). So, "shortly after she arrived on the Riviera, we arranged a date. I told the prince," said Delaware-born Father Tucker, "that he could marry a commoner, but not a common girl." Grace met Father Tucker's specifications, too. In Chicago Grace paused briefly to give her own estimate of the situation. "Nationality," she said...
Wrinkles in the Sky. In Le Lorgneur Watteau made use of his favorite technique of composition: he riffled through his countless drawings for characters to fit the scene. In this painting, the guitar player is his actor-friend Philippe Poisson. Ironically Watteau, who took great pains with his drawings, usually hurried his painting...