Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Chalmers Hamill was having a fit out in Colorado. He had taken a late flight with Dorothy back to her training site in Denver. When he got off the plane and picked up a New York Times, he almost had a heart attack. He suddenly saw nine years of hard work and personal sacrifice going down the drain because his daughter had spoken out and broken the sacred rule. It didn't matter that what she had said happened to be the truth...
...Democratic Congress is not likely to cut social programs, at least not as deeply as Ford is urging. Nor is Congress expected to regroup these programs into big packages-known as "block grants"-and hand them over to the states to be administered as the Governors see fit. Neither is Congress likely to increase Social Security taxes by as much as Ford proposes, give the Pentagon all that Ford is asking, or raise fees for Medicare patients. The prospect is for a series of fights between Congress and the President, with election-year realities forcing Ford to back...
...Sociobiology is accepted outside the biology labs in social science, as Spencerian logic was, and if the government sees fit to write off present social inequalities as extensions of genetic determinance, all of Wilson's afterthoughts about political neutrality won't change minds. Late apologetics will not serve as a barrier to political misuse of his hypothesis. Like it or not, the new synthesis may be the twentieth century's excuse for radical laissez faire and rigid status...
...student is taking an exam. Detailed footnotes are required for the essay and he panics. He proceeds to make them up, a host of bogus references. After the exam, seized by a fit of Raskolnikov-like paranoia that the teacher will check up and expose his crime, he types up index cards in the Dewey Decimal system, one for each reference, and slips them into the Widener catalogue...
...fit are Americans? In its first report on the state of the nation's wellbeing, federal officials last week offered an answer. Titled Health, United States, 1975, a three-volume, 600-page study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare indicated that the physical condition of Americans had improved significantly in the past generation, but that excessive use of alcohol and tobacco as well as improper diet and lack of exercise are still major causes of disease...