Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ATTEMPT OF PUNDIT ARTHUR KROCK [TIME, JAN. 5] TO LIMIT THE POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE GREAT AND GENTLE JIM HAGERTY TO THE CONFINES OF NEW YORK STATE SET ME LAUGHING FIT TO KILL...
...example, Saint-Cyr, the West Point of France, would be obliged to admit German, Benelux and Italian cadets, and could no longer have sole say over its own curriculum. Nor would France any longer be able to make, buy or sell arms as it sees fit. There was also a serious question whether France could freely exchange its overseas officers-fighting in Indo-China or tied down in colonial trouble spots-with its own officers in the European Army, without five nations' concurrence. These difficulties had led De Gaulle to demand a looser federation, something like an old-fashioned...
...place. France's handful of craftsmen (among them: an old widow, an ex-jockey, a chef) will spend an entire week fashioning the body for such a figure, then modeling the uniform out of tin leaf. It takes 40 delicate soldering operations to make King Louis' drummer fit to pass muster and about $30 hard cash to put him in a collector's cabinet...
...York Curb Exchange, which was started by stock traders on Broad Street's curbstones in about 1850, last week changed its name to fit its present position (878 listings, 106,200,000 shares traded last year). Up on its Trinity Place facade went the name: American Stock Exchange. Nickname: "Amex...
...gives no privilege against betraying one's friends, and yet no decent American would request such a betrayal, so long as no heinous crime is Involved. It is ingrained in schoolboys not to "peach" on a comrade, and any school-teacher who asked them to do so it not fit...