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Word: fitness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices, he would doll up the music with ornaments and, if another soprano complained, he would steal a few arias from the first soprano and slip them to the second. To further befuddle historians, Handel was continually juggling arias to fit whatever boy soprano, male alto or countertenor happened along. As a result, a wide range of different but thoroughly authentic "original versions" of the oratorio came into being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Misunderstood Messiah | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...experimental kit to cut pollution by about 50% that will fit into Ford cars now on the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Ford's Better Idea | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

Children's textbooks and story books, the great religions, kindergarten. Hollywood movies, popular literature, TV, female school teachers, Christmas presents, and Greck mythology are all conclusively proven guilty of conditioning women to fit female stereotypes...

Author: By Spencie Love, | Title: Women Liberation Lit | 12/16/1969 | See Source »

...political barricades. Yet the belief that the U.S. military was betrayed or let down by civilian leaders, in or out of Government, is comparable to the idea, on the other side, that the U.S. was led into a hopeless war by the "militaryindustrial complex." Both notions fail to fit the facts. Both are dangerous to future American unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE ARMY AND VIET NAM: THE STAB-IN-THE-BACK COMPLEX | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...drivers fighting for $50,000 in prize money, much of it put up by Havasu's developer, Oilman Robert McCulloch. Between them, Outboard Marine and Kiekhaefer Mercury had no fewer than 40 boats in the field. By the end of the race, most of the craft were fit only for beach-party kindling. Within the first two hours, gusty 20-m.p.h. winds caused at least a dozen boats to flip into spray-spewing somersaults; others slammed sickeningly into the treacherous shoals bordering the course. Bill Petty of Wapakoneta, Ohio, driving a deep-vee hull powered by triple Mercury engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Farewell to Put-Puts | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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