Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking vigorous and rested (not to mention 10 lbs. lighter), Brezhnev discussed European security, trade and the Middle East with Wilson. Although his voice seemed a bit more slurred than usual, he made a 20-rninute speech before Soviet television cameras, giving the impression of a man who was fit and in command-at least as far as anyone could...
...Schuller's formula for church success consists of five points: "Accessibility, service, visibility, possibility thinking and excess parking." Some churchmen find that too shallow. "This church doesn't take religion seriously enough," complains Bob Merkle, the director of a counseling service who works with the church. "To fit in around here you have to be compulsively cheerful." The erudite Theology Today has been debating whether Schuller's message is a cultural copout...
...heard Parent laughing and saying behind his mask, "Gee that kid can shoot." Another time when reporters in the dressing room spotted an ugly bruise on Parent's thigh and asked if a slap shot had caused it, he replied: "Nah, my wife bit me in a wild fit of passion...
...caricature does not quite fit. Beneath that unruffled exterior is a steely, strong-minded woman of disciplined ambition and impressive intelligence. A grocer's daughter, she won a scholarship to Oxford, where she earned an M.A. in chemistry. At 23 she was a practicing research chemist, a law student in her spare time and a parliamentary candidate running for her first office -all while preparing for her marriage to now wealthy Oilman Denis Thatcher. She lost that election, but after giving birth to twins and working several years as a barrister specializing in tax law, she entered the House...
Thomas Hart Benton, the "GrassRoots Giant," is reduced to an artistic pygmy by the time Robert Hughes has finished [Feb. 3]. It is sad that of all Benton's outstanding works, Hughes deems it fit to mention only The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley because it contains a portrait of ex-Pupil Jackson Pollock. Apparently Mr. Hughes is still smarting from the sting of Benton's caustic rejection of much of so-called modern art. Is he also among those seeking revenge...