Word: fitful
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...class. But we all know this won’t last. As a naïve freshman in the fall of 2006, I was initially fooled by the fashionable first few weeks. I skipped through the Yard loving life—what a perfect place to be! I fit right in here. I was excited to be part of this smart, well-dressed, and all-around well put together society. I had chosen the right institution after all.Little did I know what lay ahead in the coming weeks. Cue the horror music. I truly felt like...
...tackles for loss in the 2006 campaign, the Elizabethtown, N.C. natives bring a lot to the Crimson front line. Desmond, the elder of the two, stands at 6’5”, 280 pounds, while Brenton, at 6’3”, 235 pounds, is hardly fit to bear the title “little brother.” The two played together at East Bladen in Elizabethtown and have always enjoyed the joys and pressures of playing with a sibling. “You always know that you have your brother there, someone you can always relate...
...Karl Lagerfeld: In a very simple way: people told me. First they started telling me about the perfume and the sunglasses, and then when the shop opened, I said, "Let's have a look." And it fit! So I thought it was the right moment. I was tired of narrow shoulders and things like this. I suddenly liked this post-Italian updated modern look. Modern because Tom's clothes have nothing to do with the old clothes. It's the idea of them. It shares the mood. But in fact they are made differently, and also, in ready-to-wear...
After Hurricane Katrina, folkloristCarl Lindahl wondered how he could help survivors from New Orleans. He found his answer while sorting through old clothes at a Houston site for evacuees. As he searched for pants to fit a bone-thin man standing 6-ft. 5, the man told his story: he'd been trapped with a group of elderly without food or water. Every day for four days he swam out a second-story window to a nearby store, dragging supplies back through the polluted waters. Lindahl was transfixed by the man's quiet heroism. And that's when...
...shuttle and wheel into Blodgett Pool. But Becca V. Agoglia, Kolbe’s swim coach for her junior and senior years at Harvard, said, “I never heard her complain.” “I wasn’t sure how I would fit in...I was pretty afraid,” Kolbe said of her arrival at Harvard. “I didn’t know how [the coach] would react to having a disabled swimmer on the team.” Agoglia described Kolbe’s training regimen—which...