Word: fitter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco's I. Magnin & Co. literally goes to great lengths to please women who are partial to its high fashion and unperturbed about the tall prices that go with it. For favored customers who are far from its 21 stores in the West, Magnin offers to fly a fitter, a salesperson and a collection of the latest styles anywhere in the U.S., free of charge. Such excursions often produce orders...
...Prime Minister must be a lot fitter than we are," Stewart quipped to the others. "There he goes, striding along like Marco Polo." Holt strolled down the beach and dived into the chill waters. "If Mr. Holt can take it," Stewart said, "I'd better go in too." He went for a dip but, discouraged by the condition of the water, quickly returned to the others. By now, the tide had turned and was rushing out. As he swam, his head bobbing above the waves, Holt was carried farther and farther out into a broad stretch of swirling water...
Three housewives, a school-cafeteria cook, an electrician, a pipe fitter, a secretary, a gas-company clerk, a grocer, two factory workers and a former state appointee were making history. Never before had a federal jury drawn from Mississippi veniremen convicted white defendants in any civil rights case...
...title story is a discursive account of a momentous day in the life of a precocious five-year-old. The Misfits is the cow-country ballad about obsessed horse hunters that later became a celebrated movie starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. One of the best stories, Fitter's Night, has a sibling relationship to Miller's 1955 Broadway play, A View from the Bridge. It describes the life and hilarious hard times of Tony Calabrese, shipfitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...quite the same Paar. All work and no play made Jack. Now that he had been retired for a year, the high-tension lines had dropped from his face; he looked younger, fitter, less neurotic-and less in tune with the times. He was obviously nervous and his timing was off. Still, because he was Paar, and because he has not forgotten how to put together a program with flavor, if not taste, the hour had more laughs than a week of canned comedies...