Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur's land reform in Japan. ECOSOC nevertheless overwhelmingly adopted the U.S. program, which will be offered as guide and model to underdeveloped nations. Its gist: 1) as many medium, family-sized holdings as possible; 2) breakup of too large or amalgamation of too small holdings, not to fit doctrinaire slogans but to insure maximum efficient production...
...really lost when George Flores went down were his 19-year-old wife and three-week-old son. For their sake he had eagerly solicited the Garden match; the purse, $1,500, was the biggest of his brief career. The Garden doctors examined him and pronounced him fighting fit. And for his Garden debut, the matchmakers thoughtfully paired up George Flores with an old acquaintance, personable Roger Donoghue, the boy who had given him his next-to-last beating only two weeks before...
...Russians. Egypt's masters have on occasion proved themselves as ineffectual as any of the others. But, by virtue of past glory and present intellectual influence, Egypt is looked on by many people in the Arab world as a potential leader. Whether or not Egypt can ever be fit for that role, the country holds a strategic position in the Middle East...
Said Ulrich's mother: "It was very naughty of him. As soon as he's fit, I suppose hell be back hanging about the aerodrome again...
...hard to sum up a man who voted against his own party whenever he thought fit, and yet (as Pearson sadly admits) bequeathed to politics the tight "party-line" system that has plagued it ever since. No man did more than Dizzy to din radical notions into Tory skulls, yet he could also say without a qualm that "the movement of the middle classes for the abolition of slavery was virtuous, but it was not wise...