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Word: fitfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Runner-up: "He's over here now--he's an Afro-American now, not an African. I'm going to get on him and give him all the grief I give the American kids."--Georgetown men's basketball Coach John Thompson, referring to 7-fit., 3-in. Dikembe Matembe...

Author: By Rebecca D. Knowles, | Title: Tiebreaker Puts Racquetmen 3rd | 3/4/1989 | See Source »

...University does not see fit to classify an organization that arbitrarily excludes women as being sufficiently discriminatory; it is blatantly hypocritical for the administration to trumpet claims of equal treatment for both sexes while failing to combat obvious violations of such to the greatest extent of its abilities...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: 'Cliffies Second-Class | 3/1/1989 | See Source »

...speaks of his leadership ability and his conservative point of view while his brother says, "he is someone who tailors his views to fit a situation." I find both his leadership ability and his commitment to conservatism highly questionable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crassness of Lee | 3/1/1989 | See Source »

...solving progressive who wore his Republicanism lightly, even served Jimmy Carter as vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. With that political lineage and a wife describing herself as "alas, a good old-fashioned liberal," Darman was hardly a natural fit in the conservative Reagan White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICHARD DARMAN: Driven To Beat the Budget | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

When he was 13, he was shipped off to England to be educated at Rugby. His Anglo-Saxon schoolmates wasted no time in letting him know that he did not fit in; they snickered while, facing his first English breakfast, Rushdie tried to figure out how to eat a kipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hybrid Creature, Invisible Man | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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