Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fit of Pique. Hours before that deadline came the first hint of a Russian backdown. Fidel Castro sent a letter to the U.N.'s Acting Secretary-General U Thant withdrawing his objections to the removal of the bombers from Cuba; they were, he said in a characteristic fit of pique, old and inferior aircraft anyhow. Kennedy paid no public attention to Castro's message. He was still waiting for word from the Kremlin, and it came shortly after noon on the day of the press conference...
...been some grumbling that Nehru is no wartime leader. At 73, he often seems physically and mentally spent. His hair is snow-white and thinning, his skin greyish and his gaze abstracted. Since the invasion, he has not spared himself, and his sister, Mme. Pandit, thinks Nehru is "fighting fit-he's got that old twinkle in his eye." But he tires noticeably as the day goes on. One old friend says, "It makes a big difference whether you see him in the morning or the evening...
From the start, the Germans tried to fit into everyday life by attending synagogue services, joining local clubs. But the community remained aloof from the strangers for months. The turning point came when calls went out for blood to increase the supplies in the clinic's blood bank. The Germans volunteered with the rest. Since then, collective members have invited Germans into their homes, take them along to domino contests and movie nights in Tel Aviv. Fortnight ago, Israelis watched curiously as one of the Germans sobbed during memorial services for the Jewish victims of Crystal Night.* The murderous...
Machiavelli's Pupil. Erlanger makes it clear that 16th century behavior must not be cut to fit 20th century motives. In particular he observes that separation of church and state was not an unpopular idea in the 16th century; it was not an idea at all, and a ruler to whom it had been expressed would have found it incomprehensible...
Besides dissociating the C.L.G.S. from the departments and standardizing its requirements, the Faculty members who favored changing it also wished to insure that the C.L.G.S. provision would fit into a larger, more far-ranging scheme designed to reshape Harvard's tutorial and Honors programs. At the same time as the Faculty approved the General Studies revision, it also passed a motion which attempted to convert the distinction between Honors and non-Honors Programs into a distinction between programs with, and without, tutorial instruction. The important point was that either the tutorial, or the non-tutorial program could lead...