Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...average apartment building in this country resembles a low-income housing project in America, though ours has fewer conveniences and is more crowded. In most parts of the country, one has to stand in line for hours to get meat, and even then it is sometimes not fit...
...level. Scarcely able to breathe, the spacemen choked through the harrowing four-minute descent. After the splashdown, they struggled for another five minutes, while suspended upside down in the capsized craft, to get at oxygen masks, stowed in a hard-to-reach spot behind their couches. Brand, whose mask fit poorly, passed out; he revived a minute or so later when Slayton and Stafford clapped the mask tightly over his face...
Although the men who drafted the Constitution were familiar with the tyranny of kings, they gave the President great power, largely because they tailored the office to fit the man who they knew would be the first incumbent. Trusting George Washington, they made him - and all his successors - Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, ruled that he could be removed from office only for treason or criminal behavior, and gave him veto power over the Legislative Branch. Since then, other Presidents have increased this inherently powerful office in size, panoply and functions, but not in effectiveness, public confidence...
...night." He maintains that people can get into good condition and stay there by exercising as little as 30 minutes a week. "We've confused exercise with athletes," says Morehouse, a firm, flat-bellied 62. "You don't have to go nearly to exhaustion to become fit...
Morehouse's program is simple. In his view, adults whose skirts or trousers fit tightly are, if not actually overweight, then "overwaist," and need trimming. To accomplish this, they should first cut 200 calories out of their daily diets. Then they should exercise off 300 calories a day. Over a week, this would result in a "deficit" of 3,500 calories, about the same amount as in a pound of fat. "If you lose more than one pound a week, put it back on," Morehouse advises. "When you start sweating, you're working your body too hard...