Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pronounced physically fit and free from any signs of emotional strain after a long-delayed medical checkup, Richard Nixon quickened the tempo of his Watergate survival strategy with a burst of public appearances. At the same time he curtly cut off cooperation with Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, once more reneging on his previous claims that he wanted "all the facts" about the scandal exposed...
...with urban backgrounds fared no better than those with rural backgrounds; blacks on the average received at least as many years of education as more-successful immigrant groups; many ethnic groups were more segregated from the rest of society than were blacks; and black families until quite recently rarely fit Daniel Moynihan's matriarchal stereotype. He concludes that low social mobility among blacks resulted partially from "the nature of black culture," but mostly from discrimination...
...division, subsidiary and affiliate have to compile lists of their executive jobs and identify people who have the potential to fill them in the future. (Exxon defines an executive as anyone earning $25,000 a year or more; some 2,900 of its 150,000 employees around the world fit that category.) Similar lists are kept all the way up to the top of the empire. In New York, each Exxon director compiles a brief list of executives who are potential future members of the board...
...reason for the taxonomic purge is that birds tend on occasion to be indiscreet in their mating habits. The Cape Sable sparrow and the dusky seaside sparrow, for example, have interbred; Harlan's hawks have mated with red-tailed hawks. These unions have produced hybrids that do not fit the A.O.U.'s official definition of a distinct species. As a result, the A.O.U. has punished the offending species by dropping them from birddom's social register...
...attractive. As you "enter" Strand's "room," a strange one-sided dialogue ensues: he puts questions to you are thinking. While he recognizes his own place in the poem, he remains "at the back/of the room." The words themselves have to do the job of the poetry, to 'fit' the reader...