Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even as the Navy hailed Independence as the biggest warship in the world (the liners United States and America would fit beam to beam on her flight deck), opposition was strong in Congress against the Navy's overall carrier doctrine. Part of the opposition comes from supporters of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, who believe that supercarriers put the Navy into the Air Force's business of strategic nuclear attack. But the most effective fight is coming from Navy types who contend that too much money is going into carriers that are vulnerable to both...
With some distaste, London journalists did their best to explain to their readers the strange marital customs of the U. S. South. But it soon turned out that Mrs. Lewis was even kinda younger than her husband saw fit to say. Memphis court records showed her age to be 13, and her quickie marriage last December took place more than five months before Jerry's divorce from wife...
...couple of days of good Will, and the training sergeant (Myron McCormick), a man prepared for almost anything but affection, has been almost killed with kindness. Desperate, he decides to fit the round peg in a round hole. Though regulations forbid such cruel and unusual punishments, the sergeant secretly assigns Will as "P.L.O.-Permanent Latrine Orderly." "P.L.O.!" gasps Will, "Oh, thank you, sir." And he proceeds to prove himself such an orderly orderly that the captain compliments him on the condition of the latrine. Will allows that most of the credit belongs to the sergeant who-"He what!" the captain...
...report recommended that the White House expand its contact with businessmen, that the party in power make greater efforts to fit "square pegs in square holes, round pegs in round holes," and that the party out of power anticipate its ascendancy by making plans to bring in the right people...
...Daisy Mae, the Dogpatch heroine. Daisy, however, did not meet the staid Mrs. Capley's standards for a daughter-in-law: her feet "weren't big enough," she had a figure. After her hair had been properly disheveled and she had been provided with clothes that didn't quite fit, Daisy was pronounced ready for Boston society. She looked, Capp says, "like a bag of turnips...