Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British reinforcements poured in. In 36 hours, R.A.F. transport planes airlifted 3,500 red-bereted paratroopers, originally ticketed to Abadan, from Cyprus to Fayid, British GHQ in the Canal Zone. They arrived looking fit, ready and mean. An infantry battalion and the 33rd Airborne Regiment followed. In Britain, 3,000 miles away, four-engine R.A.F. Hastings transports were gassed up to fly the crack igth Infantry Brigade to Suez. The 8,000-ton cruiser Gambia hove into Port Said...
Hypocrites Cry & Howl. To help her, Williams composed and sent her "a handful of flowers" plucked from the garden of Scripture and made into "a little posy fit and easy for thy meditation and refreshing...
...commission stated that avowed Communist Party members are not fit to teach, since they have given up their intellectual freedom and are members of a conspiratorial group. Among the commission's members at that time was President Conant...
...Kazan put it: "I--and for that matter the public--was presented with a finished fact. My picture had been cut to fit the specifications of a code which is not my code, is not the recognized code of the picture industry, and is not the code of the great majority of the audience...
...Trafford in-laws had been mysteriously murdered. Later, a luckless Negro, pawning the dead man's watch, was arrested, tried, convicted and, strangely, given only a life sentence. Now a Yankee journalist named Vitner is carpetbagging in Fredericksville, poking into this old case, trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together from back newspaper files and court records into a sensational scandal. Icily insolent, he mouths cliches about the "sins of the South" and its "incipient fascism"-which he says only his kind of newspaper exposure will cure...