Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said a Kansas City Democratic boss ("Don't quote me by name"): "It's not what the Marines themselves think. The people in general are going to think that any guy who is so stupid as to pop off like that isn't fit to be President." Most Democrats, however, decided that the incident merely demonstrated again that Harry Truman was "just human," and courageous enough to admit his mistakes. No politician was ever hurt by being human, was he? Out in Chicago, Cook County Boss Jacob Arvey said confidently: "Walking before that convention showed...
...Marines and marched over to his regular Thursday-morning press conference. "How do you feel?" a newsman asked knowingly. He felt all right, the President said. "Do you feel better now than you did yesterday morning?" He always felt good, said Harry Truman, expanding his chest. He was always fit. And if anyone didn't believe it, he invited, stepping back like a boxer and slightly raising his hands, let him come up and take...
...suspected Communists and their fellow travelers, committee members began explaining that it was all a terrible misunderstanding. Mrs. Hestor McCullough, who had helped put Actress Jean Muir out of a job by protesting to her studio (TIME, Sept. 4), announced that she would continue protesting whenever she saw fit as an individual but not as member of any purge committee. The editors of Counterattack, who had assembled the charges of Communist leanings against Actress Muir in the first place, denied that they had any intentions of setting themselves up as a final authority in such matters. At week...
...President was granted $600 million to lend as he sees fit to expand the industrial war effort; another $1.4 billion would be provided for the same purpose later on. Firms could be exempted from antitrust laws, when, working in combination, they furthered the defense effort...
...World War II workers at air bases and war plants, tabulated the blood pressure of 15,706 seemingly normal, healthy men & women from 16 to 65. They found a much greater range than had previously been considered normal. Therefore, they concluded, the definition of "normal" should be revised to fit the facts...