Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking for "hundreds of thousands of documents and thousands of hours of recorded conversations covering the widest variety of subjects." He suggested that the committee "determine what is an impeachable offense" before demanding the evidence. Implicit was the likelihood that St. Clair would reject requests that did not fit his own limited interpretation of impeachable acts...
LIMBS. Artificial thigh bones made of titanium and other modern alloys are being developed, primarily by Japanese surgeons. Dr. Yasuto Itami, of Tokyo, recently designed and implanted a titanium and polyethylene thigh bone that can be precisely adjusted to fit the patient when it is installed. Other orthopedists are using cords of woven Dacron-which is chemically inert and thus will not trigger an immune response -to repair or replace damaged tendons. Dr. William Harrison Jr. of Tulsa, Okla., uses Dacron tubing to repair separated shoulders; the material forms a scaffolding or framework upon which new ligament can grow...
...such luck; a moneychanger is more welcome in the temple than a live artist in the bourse. The blasphemy gave Mrs. Scull a fit of the vapors, and she was whisked away to a restorative party after Mr. Scull, looking suitably grim, told the rude dauber that he ought to be grateful, since the auction price would push up the price of his new work. Rauschenberg, accompanied by an artists' accountant and financial counselor named Rubin Gorewitz, went off to Washington to start lobbying. "From now on," he told the Wall Street Journal, "I want a royalty...
...navy commander, was barely halfway to Capetown when his titanium mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...
...went on to name local people, besides Murphy, whom the "army" had considered kidnaping. The list included Atlanta's recently installed and amply girthed mayor, Maynard Jackson, and in a flash of mordant wit the kidnaper quipped: "We decided against the mayor because he wouldn't fit in the trunk...