Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India and Brazil. Today the company operates 26 factories in nine countries, manufactures 80% of what it sells v. only 25% in 1956. Design has been so meticulously standardized, says Thornbrough, that "we can get an engine from Peterborough, transmissions from Coventry, rear axles and hydraulics from France and fit them in with other parts in Detroit, India or Brazil, and make a completely assembled tractor to specifications...
...console him: "You speak of 'great'; no man is great unless he has had suffering, sorrow and humiliation . . . Defeat, at the summit of a notable career, is a symbolism so symmetrical that poets and dramatists never ask a more nearly perfect theme." The theme did not fit Henry Fountain Ashurst. But he had his own, which was to say what he felt, with eloquence...
...from Rome, men like the Dominican Vincent Ferrer and the Franciscan Bernadine of Siena were working to renew Catholicism from within. Yet one major reason why the Vatican rejected Luther's cries for change was because "neither Rome nor the Church's leaders elsewhere were in a fit state to understand the spiritual needs of the age; nor, hence, to grasp Luther's theological and practical demands...
...anxious to give Kennedy the benefit of all possible doubt, waited for the dust in Pecos to settle a bit before jumping onto the Billie Sol Estes story, the Trib not only stirred dust but dished dirt. Eight days before the New York Times, for example, saw fit to move the developments in Pecos onto Page One, the Trib's frontpage headlines screamed: TEXAS SCANDAL REACHES...
...Keeping Fit. Snell never walks anywhere if he can run instead. The headmaster of Auckland's Mount Albert Grammar School recalls a day in 1957 when Snell won two matches for the school's tennis team, then played a starring role in a cricket match. A little later, the headmaster found him running around the school track in shorts and T shirt. "What are you doing, Snell?" he asked. "I want to keep fit, sir," the 17-year-old replied...