Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed that a serious publication can see fit to boost a production like Damn Yankees...
This was not the kind of keepsake calculated to fit in with the harmony at San Francisco, and the U.S. reacted angrily. The President phoned the Pentagon from New England, got the-details, and declared through his press secretary: "The attack on our plane was inexplicable and unwarranted." Secretary of State Dulles took it up with Molotov in an interview that Dulles' aides called "businesslike and succinct...
From the American point of view, the French presence in North Africa is an example of colonialism, therefore deplorable and fit to be damned. And the Frenchman, meeting this summary damnation, has a tendency to answer that colonialism would have existed in America had the Indian population been encouraged instead of blighted by contact with the white invaders...
...Fit & Painted. At war's end, Peale's gallery of more than 30 portraits of Revolutionary heroes brought him as many commissions as he could handle. One of them, a painting of Washington at Yorktown, which still hangs in the Maryland House of Delegates (see color page), is one of the best of Washington at his prime. Peale added the Marylanders' hero, hard-riding Colonel Tilghman, holding the articles of surrender, and Peale's great friend Lafayette. In the middle ground, "to tell the story at first sight," Peale introduced the French and U.S. battle flags...
...history museum in America, was the prime mover in founding the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1805, the oldest U.S. art school still in existence (TIME, Feb. 7). When Peale died in 1827, one of his finest tributes was the memory of an old Continental who said: "He fit and painted, painted and fit." On both accounts the U.S. has reason to be grateful...