Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best friend used to be forced to eat people food not fit for a dog. Now U.S. families are spending more for dog food than they are for baby's. See BUSINESS, Oh, for a Dog's Life...
There was one point when Dr. Norman Vincent Peale nearly quit the ministry in a fit of despondency. Described in a new biography,* the crisis took place in 1955. While on his way to Harrison Valley, N.Y., from Manhattan, to visit his dying father, Br. Peale read a highly critical article in Redbook quoting Theologians Liston Pope and Franklin Clark Fry, among others, as calling Peale's type of religion "very nearly blasphemous" and "a parody." As he read, Peale "felt something wince and shrivel inside of him." That night on the train, Peale wrote out his resignation...
...mantle of 'savior and protector' of the working people doesn't fit industrial 'fat-cats' who are promoting legislation in various states," he concluded...
...rate, determined administrator and an autocrat of the timetable, is a stickler for details ("Honest Ave, the Hairsplitter"). He badgers aides at all hours, once sent state police searching for a commissioner who had failed to check out properly. Intense, he can work his staff to exhaustion, still feel fit himself, takes pride in making fast judgments and quick decisions ("It's just like tennis"). Says a close adviser: "He's found his greatest love in being Governor...
...Advocate's cover looks like the cover of a high school geometry book, and The Advocate has seen fit to continue its policy of filling space with book reviews. I'll leave the review of the reviews to more trapezoidal minds than mine...