Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considerations than that." He then told them of his plans to leave for California the next day and remarked, "I don't know when I'll come back to Washington-if ever." After that he seemed at a loss for words and wondered aloud if his suit fit properly for the TV address. "It looks like I've lost weight," he complained. Finally, deciding that the suit did in fact fit properly, he made his farewells: "I'll say goodbye to you, my good and dear friends." The congressional leaders could only say, in their turn...
...call him in and say, "We've got the signal from across the river [the CIA] to put the hold on this." And that will fit rather well because the FBI agents who are working the case, at this point, feel that's what...
Massachusetts isn't a big trucking state--not like Pennsylvania and Ohio and the other mid-country states that Route 80 passes through on its way east and west and not, indeed, like California, where enormous rigs that wouldn't fit on eastern roads wind their way gracefully along four-lane interstates. In Massachusetts, trucks are just trucks--they get something from here to there without much of the glamor of the open road found elsewhere...
...Novelist Nicholas Meyer (The Love Story Story, Target Practice) has seen fit to bring back Holmes himself in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, coyly subtitled, "Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D." The publisher thought enough of the book's potential popularity to order a first printing of 25,000 copies. In brief, Sherlock lives...
...convincing evidence for the once controversial theory that the two continents were once joined; geological features and fossil remains on opposite sides of the ocean show a remarkable match, and the shelves, or underwater plateaus, extending from each of the continents into the Atlantic form a near perfect fit, like adjacent pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. One piece of the puzzle, however, seemed to be missing. There was a deep indentation in the Mozambique plateau off Durban, South Africa, but no proof of a corresponding continental projection from South America. Last month it was announced that the missing land mass...