Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time. Jordan's gay, gutty King Hussein, 26. has shown signs of settling down. Once a lavish aviation and sports-car buff, he has not had a new plane or car in three years. Recalling a Washington visit, he often says earnestly: "Our main problem is how to fit President Kennedy's vision and energy to Jordan's problems." Fortnight ago Hussein acted with vision, energy and political daring...
...answer to a question from the audience, Thomas stated that if he were President--"which my follow countrymen with astounding unamity have seen fit to prevent"--he would announce unilaterally that the United States would not test any more nuclear weapons but instead would insist on inspection as part of a disarmament agreement...
...really heal until this century. Yet as far back as 1852, Britain's John Henry Cardinal Newman wrote The Idea of a University, a plea for "cultivation of the intellect." Newman held that a university "is not a convent, not a seminary; it is a place to fit men of the world for the world...
...Well, nobody's perfect, and maybe these things will straighten out. The junta is full of foresight. Why, they planned elevators so large that even a hospital bed could fit into them--no trouble at all. Around that time, somebody figured that Harvard students were getting bigger all the time, and ordered a new shipment of extra-large beds which...
...officers' club pool in pursuit of a flock of ducks. In another episode, sheep get loose on the main runway when a plane carrying the Under Secretary of War for Air is about to land. There is a private from Alabama who thinks " 'tain't fit for a grown man" to make his own bed, so his sergeant ends up making...