Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scales will be standard patrol-car equipment. San Francisco police, however, are relying on the less scientific rule that an ounce of marijuana is the amount that can be cupped in both hands without spilling any. Sacramento sheriff's deputies judge an ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope-sellers' measure. Many marijuana users are taking no chances. "Head shops" report brisk sales 'of the pocket scales ($1.50 retail) to users who want to weigh in just below the one-ounce limit...
During much of his time in office, Ford had gone flying about the country in his long-tested, but previously localized campaign style. He had made speeches and appeared in parades that seemed more fit for a Congressman than a President. The main result was to cut into the popularity ratings he had achieved after succeeding the discredited Richard Nixon. Last week, without acknowledging that anyone had ever criticized his love of local campaigning, Ford talked as though he had discovered a new political truth. Said he: "The best way to preserve the dignity of the office and the best...
...Good, there goes another smoker.'" While many tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...
...surface, George F. Will is an enigma, a man of contradictions and paradoxes who doesn't fit into any neat compartments. He is a Washington Post columnist who praises Gerald Ford more often than he damns him; a National Review editor who frequently ridicules Ronald Reagan; a conservative who decided Richard Nixon was guilty of impeachable crimes more than a year before his resignation; and an academic who, at least until recently, called himself a Republican, and who traces the origin of his conservative outlook to his disappointments as a youthful fan of the Chicago Cubs. If there...
Since a large portion of our money goes to the Government to be spent in ways that we do not always favor, I see no reason why the remainder should not be spent in educating our children as we see fit in places where they will be safe, well-educated and exposed to the religious beliefs we favor-without our being made to feel guilty about not supporting public education...