Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrat to Martin Van Buren during the campaign of 1828, "we should succeed beyond a doubt." In the campaign year 1954, the same politico might have begun: "If we only knew what to do with the principles at hand, we should succeed beyond a doubt," and his prescription would fit either party...
...money made a remarkable discovery and put it right in the booklet," said Candidate Eisenhower. "He says dishes should be washed in a dishpan, not just any dishpan, either. The Department of Agriculture says you will want a pan large enough to accommodate your dishes. But it must also fit into your sink if that is where you use it . . .*These things are a symbol of the shameful wasting of tax funds...
...stated that the draft must continue almost indefinitely if we are to maintain a 3,000 man defense force. Speaking on the "Youth Wants to Know" TV show last month, he stated that "we have, in effect, UMT now." With only 150,000 men coming of age each year fit for military service, Hannah has called it impossible to abandon and draft even for an all-out UMT program, until 1960 at the earliest...
...demands on a ready Air Force are so extreme (e.g., SAC air crews spend at least three months overseas each year) that its airmen have no time to fit into a local community. Communities, in return, are often hostile and impatient with the migrating airmen. (March A.F.B., near Riverside, Calif., paid its enlisted men in $2 bills one week, then politely pointed out its importance to the community's business when Riverside cash registers were soon filled with $2 bills.) To gain stability for the long pull, a ready military force must have the resources and privileges...
...writer of historical novels, Englishman Alfred Duggan (The Little Emperors) is out of step with most of the others in his business; he 1) follows history, instead of twisting it to fit his story; 2) is steeped in his subject but does not smell of the library; and 3) keeps sex in its place. Duggan's penalty is that his novels have scant chance to become U.S. bestsellers. His satisfaction on the other hand, can be that he is writing some of the best historicals to be had nowadays-historical which are also good novels...