Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that unsettled time. One Johnson aide remembers that there was information about the activities of Congressmen and Senators. The FBI reports were often included in the President's night reading, and sometimes they were such "garbage," as one man said, that Johnson aides thought they were not fit for the President to see. They were sent back to the bureau...
...yellow banner covered with about 10 lines of slogans. These words were on it. "We Defend National Democratic Rights. Socialist Working Class Anti-Racist Unity Struggle." "Quite a mouthful," someone says to him. The man smiles and nods, then resumes pacing before it. He seemed to be trying to fit the banner into one frame...
Such onslaughts have their liabilities. The cartoon's first obligation is to be pithy; faces and facts may be stretched to fit a gag. Editorial artists work best against rather than for something, and not every issue is as black and white as the drawing proclaims. That lack of shading and subtlety obviously influenced New York Times Founder Adolph Ochs when he kept sketches from his paper's editorial page-a tradition that is maintained today. "A cartoon," Ochs is said to have complained, "cannot say 'On the other hand.'" On the other hand, a cartoon...
...make it believable that I could be him as a young man. I would see some little movements that he would do and try to link them with my performance. It was like a mathematical problem -having a result and figuring out how to make the begin fit...
During World War I, while a young German officer lay in a hospital recuperating from his wounds, he passed the time looking at maps and pondering the remarkable way in which the opposing sides of the Atlantic seemed to fit together. Alfred Wegener was not the first to notice that the bulging coastline of Brazil is a reciprocal of the west coast of Africa. For centuries scientists and cartographers speculated that a single large continent, which came to be called Pangea, had broken up into huge fragments that floated like rafts on the earth's plastic core until they...