Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't know that my refusal to divulge my recipe would cause such a flap. I have received phone calls from all over the country and have freely given my recipe. Actually I have no objections whatever to giving it to anyone-I merely said that in a fit of pique...
Some juvenile courts make the punishment fit the crime precisely. The thief is forced to make restitution; he may go to work for the person whose property he has stolen or destroyed, or he may take some other job until the money is paid back. In Seattle, lesser offenders are put to work in hospitals, state and local agencies and community service projects. When restitution has been made, they are eligible for full-time jobs with social service programs. In Memphis, Judge Turner occasionally orders parents to subsidize their child in some correctional institution. Says he: "That puts more responsibility...
...should come as no surprise, then, if the characters in Louis Auchincloss's new novel The Dark Lady have an instant appeal for many readers. His protagonists would fit right into the Palm Court, and they are the ogled, not the oglers. They move in a world of wealth, status and power, and even their tragedies are tinged with high society glamor. And tragedies abound in this occasionally melodramatic, disjoined story, which opens during the Depression, develops which opens during the Depression, develops through World War II, skips over the Armistice years and picks up again early in the McCarthy...
...form of vastly inflated salaries or perks for French soldiers and civil servants. Fully 80% of that money is ultimately re-exported to European bank accounts. The territory's operating budget is a mere $25 million a year, and the French have never seen fit to provide a development budget. But they pay their own people extraordinarily well for serving two-year terms in the harsh climate, where daytime temperatures often top 115°. A junior sergeant serving in Djibouti can make nearly $20,000 a year, up to four times what he might earn in France. "They come...
...spot. Finally the truth, he had never left Uganda at all. Amin, apparently, is still in a joking mood. After rumors built up for two days, a New York radio reporter managed to reach him by telephone. Then Radio Uganda announced that Amin was "very much alive and very fit" and had been enjoying a belated honeymoon with his fifth wife, Sarah, a former paratrooper in the Ugandan army. Nothing was said of an unsuccessful coup...