Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stimulus to speed and agreement, Singh gave precise details of the arms, function and organization of India's border patrols, his own operations prior to the ambush, and the location of Indian check posts throughout Ladakh. As a reward, he got some padded cotton clothing, which did not fit. At this point the Chinese set out to rewrite history by re-enacting it to suit the Chinese version...
...insisted on acting in Le Malade Imaginaire, the last play he ever wrote. Unlike the hero of his comedy, Moliere, 51, was suffering from no imaginary illness. He had a convulsion on the stage of Paris' Palais Royal Theater, was carried home, where he died after a violent fit of coughing...
...Ghana would get a chance to decide two questions: 1) whether their country should be a "full-fledged republic" no longer recognizing Elizabeth II as Queen of Ghana, 2) whether they approve of Nkrumah as first President for seven years. To the Evening News, there was only one man fit for the job. The man who: Osagyefo (Great Man), Katamanto (Man Whose Word Is Irrevocable), Oyeadieyie (Man of Deeds), Kukuduruni (Man of Courage), Nufenu (Strongest of All). Osuodumgya (Fire Extinguisher), Kasapreko (Man Whose Word Is Final), Kwame Nkrumah, Liberator and Founder of Ghana...
...three years later. When NBC's President Robert Kintner (TIME, Nov. 16) began his TV career by assuming high office at ABC, his fingers were still sore from five years as a Washington columnist. Louis George Cowan, until last week president of the CBS-TV network, seemed to fit the pattern. Although he was a highly successful independent TV packager, Cowan moved into the upper echelons of CBS-TV four years ago, largely because of the sudden success of a single, Cowan-made show: $64,000 Question...
Less saccharine, but equally banal, The Prophet attempts to please the more pious Christmas shopper by recreating that familiar image of a Serene Sage and His Book. The tone, while respectably sacred, is unexciting enough to fit well in the most conservative of living rooms...