Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told that surgery makes the President fit for another four years in office, in fact, "he is better than ever." Before his illness, we were is told that he was "as good as ever." If he is improved now, he must have improved from some former condition of poorer health. If he was in "excellent health" before, he cannot have "improved" now, unless there is an adjective better than "excellent." I believe the American voters would be interested in an evaluation of the President's health from physicians who vote Democratic as well as from those who vote Republican...
...friends have met his wife, the former Mariana Lowell of Boston, or been inside his book-filled apartment in Manhattan's East 80s, or met his nine-year-old daughter Isabel, or two sons, James 16, and Roger 14. A prodigious reader and prolific writer, Barzun has seen fit to arrange his routine with an almost classic precision. But this is something of a paradox, for Barzun's chief interest as a cultural historian has been not classicism, but romanticism...
Snorted Zorach, who indignantly denies ever having been a Communist sympathizer: "The figures would fit any Texas building, because they tell symbolically the history of Texas...
...Nike (rhymes with psyche), which it now touts as the backbone of U.S. air defense.*Nike has several glaring deficiencies: it is not a homing missile and must be guided electronically from the ground; its range is less than 60 miles, even in an improved model; it does not fit into the Air Force SAGE system of early radar warning against attack (the Army has its own "Missile Master" warning system). But Nike has one great virtue: it is the best now available in operational quantities to the U.S. The Air Force is adopting the Navy-developed Talos, still undergoing...
Konrad Adenauer's office in Bonn's Schaumburg palace was festive with lilacs last week. The old Chancellor himself, his craggy face and steady hands still brown from his Swiss vacation, looked fit and relaxed in a grey flannel suit as he discussed the problems of his country and his continent with TIME Correspondent James Bell...