Word: befits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miguel Aléman a reception has been laid out that will befit his position and the new friendliness between his nation and the U.S. He will sleep in the White House, be honor guest at a state dinner. He will address a joint session of Congress. In New York City, before swinging south for an inspection of TVA, he will get a ticker-tape reception, dine with government, financial and business bigwigs at the Waldorf-Astoria. But President Aléman, the first Mexican President to visit the U.S. capital, is headed for Washington and New York on more...
Cynicism is not the philosophy of real leaders. Nor does escapism befit those who prepare for leadership. That is why students now seeking to prepare for a part in world affairs, greater in number than ever before, still look hopefully to the future. That is why they scornfully deny the charge of the Phi Beta Kappa speaker at Sanders Theatre yesterday that "in war our young manhood and womanhood was not afraid of dying, but strangely now it shrinks from living," yet echo enthusiastically his message: "There is yet time for valour...
...play the part of the judge, to curse and damn his own people in compliant agreement with the incalculable hatred that they have kindled . . . that too would hardly befit one of German origin. For anyone who was born a German does have something in common with German destiny and German guilt. . . . The truths that one tries to utter about one's people can only be the product of self-examination...
When buttermakers in the Iowa Farm Bureau bellowed that such a disinterested oleopus as Brownlee's might befit scholarly Harvard but was disloyal in a cow college, Iowa State President Charles Edwin Friley junked the Brownlee pamphlet. When he spoke of drafting a revised text, the packer-minded Chicago Journal of Commerce said he was trying to "bamboozle" the public...
...were all costumed as Egyptians, but the Opera's geographical notions must be hazy, for they dress their Egyptians in clothing that might well befit a Laplander. Our wait in the boiler room was far from comfortable...