Word: befitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just prefering to save his money. His campaign promises waxed even more rhetorical than did those of the major party candidates--one idea he put forth in an interview was to dig up the White House rose garden and replace it with basic vegetables, plants he thought would better befit his less-than-imperial presidency. His economic ideas seemed just as obviously designed for that air of out-of-step impossibility mixed with seriousness that catches the camera's eye. Instead of calling for massive public works projects like Fred Harris and the other leftist candidates, McCarthy sounded almost Repulbican...
Center Wes Unseld, the shortest and burliest in the league, limps along on bad knees; yet he uses his bulk efficiently and leads the league in rebounds. Forward Mike Riordan is still noted for defensive tactics that befit a bouncer, but he has also developed into a competent shooter. Guard Kevin Porter, at 5 ft. 11 in. a Lilliputian by pro basketball standards, owns the league lead in personal fouls, but is also one of the liveliest players on any court...
Sexually, '50s youth talked a far better game than they played. There was a great deal of enthusiastic probing and, once in a while, a couple went "all the way." As befit that benighted era, the girl could thereupon be labeled as anything from a swinging chick to damaged goods. As for her date: well, the boy was just growing up. Most of the time, however, he remained stymied-by moral strictures, by lack of privacy and even by such fashionable devices as the merry widow, a maximum-security fence disguised as a bra and waist cincher...
...Kenny Loggins opens with a short acoustic set. He sang "Danny's Song," and "House at Pooh Corner," the sum total of his previous reputation, to a still-entering crowd. Loggins' voice is equal parts country twang and Elton John, and his performance of these songs was simple, as befit their accompaniment...
...also true that Mr. Humphrey has allowed himself to be entertained in a way that just does not befit an American President. I have read in the paper that Mr. Humphrey was a guest of the Red Chinese leaders at one of their so-called revolutionary operas. Now a ping pong tournament or a Chinese band playing American music is one thing, but this other behavior just strikes me as unacceptable and degrading. This is not common courtesy. These' are concessions...