Word: fittest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just declared a revolution against the Communist Chinese bear a certain tragic resemblance to the rabbits in Thurber's tale of The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble. Like rabbits, Tibetans are pastoral, non-aggressive. Unlike rabbits and Chinese, Tibetans would not score highly in any "survival of the fittest" struggle among cultures. "Our religion is going," our race is going," says Gayalo Thondap, a brother of the Dalai Llama...
...doing dressing-room nip-ups before 1960, others might trip over the ropes while entering the ring, others might be kayoed with one presidential primary punch. There will always be more to take their places, but as of this week, six Democrats had emerged from the 1958 elections looking fittest. The six: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, California's Governor-elect Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner...
...Omaha. "This coming year," says Tycoon Arnaz, "is going to be probably the most important year in television's history. You might call it the industry's moment of truth. Only quality stuff will draw an audience, so I think only the fittest will survive. We're going...
...countries today cannot find the foreign capital once readily supplied is that the savings in the industrialized countries are too low for the need. With money short all over, they have had to tighten up on credit and interest rates to check inflation, bringing on a survival-of-the-fittest competition among borrowers. Therefore, "projects with relatively low earning power...
...bull that has trouble at stud or a calf that is wild or too lean. Unlike many breeders, Lasater cares nothing about how the cow looks. Says Lasater: "Any breeder who gives his cows a second chance just doesn't give himself an even break. Survival of the fittest goes all the way here." Although most ranchmen frown on breeding without regard to general conformity, Lasater claims that his ruthless tactics have bred a herd free from cancer eye, pink eye, Bang's disease (contagious abortion...