Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barely stopped popping off about how seldom he was playing, came forth with a new idea: he thought he ought to sit out a few games. Milwaukee, however, was no place for Robinson to rest. His visit had already been disturbed by a process server. Last season, in a fit of pique, he had slung a bat into the Milwaukee stands. A couple of local customers, who said they had been hit, were suing...
...fortunate, therefore, this his linguistic precision does not result in the sort of dryness or lifelessness which is often associated with the work of contemporary academic poets. This is no doubt partly because his facility with language and prosody allow him to fit the words and form of the individual poem to its subject in the light in which he sees it, where less gifted or skilled poets would find their expression cramped by a self-imposed strictness in form and diction. A comparison of two passages, one from "First Morning," and the other from "Corrida," shows this flexibility...
...five areas in which foundation money is spent represent a broad attack on world problems. In each area the fund has concentrated its money in research projects which are isolated, but which fit into a broad attempt to attack the world's problems. The five areas...
...beyond their traditional field of property taxes. In some states the trend has reached down to the local governments, with the result that the residents of some cities, e.g., St. Louis and Louisville, are now paying three in come taxes - federal, state and local. The Eisenhower Administration has made fit ful starts, but has had no success, in an effort to draw clear lines between the tax fields that should be harvested by federal, state and local governments...
Pierre Mendès-France was back in the news, tanned, rested, fit and ready for a fight. He had learned a hard lesson in his fall from power last February. It was not enough to have public favor; he also needed a secure political base in the French Assembly, and he knew that that called for a fight...