Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Passport to Disillusion. For one year, one month and 13 days, the President Robert roamed the seas, putting in at port after port to enable Theodorus to transact mysterious international business ashore. None of the ports saw fit to recognize the C.C.S.D. passports or currency, so Theodorus' fellow passengers were forced to stay on board. Some were restive and disgruntled because the President had put silver piping on their uniforms while only a favored few had gold, but as long as the provisions held out, they were happy enough. In time, however, liquor and money were replaced by boredom...
...Colonel. Roy Cohn's fit of anger at Fort Monmouth, when he was excluded from the radar laboratory, was recounted by Colonel Kenneth E. BeLieu, aide to secretary Stevens. "I thought he was blowing his top," said the colonel, a veteran of five European campaigns and of Korea, where he lost his left...
...story of her solitary, all-night vigil outside the Palace was given to the world. And [secretly] how we all envied her! To fasten herself with chains to the railings in case she was moved during the night, and then to suffer the disappointment of falling in a fit of hysteria at the sight of a Curtain being pulled open at one of the Palace Windows shortly before seven a.m.! We lived it with you, Mrs. Lightfoote. And you may be sure that the fruits and flowers now arriving daily at your bedside from all parts of Britain...
Belmont's Barn 20 is an equine Ritz-Carlton, decorated with bright splashes of Vanderbilt's cerise and white and run by a veteran drill sergeant of a foreman who has Vanderbilt's and Winfrey's mandate to buy whatever he needs to keep the race horses fit and happy. Stall 6 is the royal suite. The Dancer, afflicted with the typical thin skin of the grey, suffers from the heat and can't stand flies, so there are fans to keep the air moving through the stall and an automatic fly-spraying system for the entire barn...
...course, Brownell's actions can also be interpreted as a series of spot decisions. But they fit too well into a pattern of lifelong political strategy not to be a planned maneuver. Back when Brownell was masterminding Gubernatorial politics in New York, the Republicans consistently posed as a party of liberalism, pulling issues of social reform out from under the Democrats and winning state elections when the national party was losing them. Dewey's "me-too" campaign of 1948 was an extension of the New York strategy to the national scene. Brownell has now reached out from his middle position...