Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party hack, 'dutifully cranking out' paintings of social-realist cliches at the dictation of unnamed 'drillmasters.' No such body of work by Kline exists. To support his thesis, all Wolfe can produce is one picture from the 40s-and even it is too expressionist to fit the strict canon of social realism...
Leonard said he had originally questioned the legitimacy of the appointment before concluding, "after very very length discussion," that "it did fit the realm of an exception...
...American promise concerns equality. The Declaration's assertion that "all men are created equal" has always been the most embattled of its "self-evident truths." Philosophers and politicians consistently attacked the idea. "The cornerstone of democracy is a natural inequality, its ideal the selection of the most fit," declared Nicholas Murray Butler. The bitter debate about slavery centered on the belief that neither God nor nature had created men equal in strength or gifts...
...seen fit to honor International Women's Year with a lengthy cover story about "The New Beauties," [June 16] a group of young women whose only discernible asset is a pretty face. Now how about giving equal space to "The New Handsomes," about the equally vapid, pea-brained, nonsense-spouting but gorgeous young men of the world? I can hardly wait...
...first session opened, an affable, jaunty Nixon, looking thin but fit, sat down confidently. When the final session ended the next day, Nixon rose, pale and shaken. The ordeal "took a lot out of him," said one close associate. "It was very rough." Although grand jury testimony remains secret unless it is introduced in a trial or ordered released by a judge, it is known that Nixon was questioned closely about four matters still under investigation by the special prosecutor's office...