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Word: fitly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's hordes of characters who fit the general pattern, and some wild ones too. There's a guy who lives between St. Augustine and Jacksonville who looks like Dan'l Boone, with buckskins and beard, and lives in an abandoned tourist camp. He's an old time musician mebbe 37-years-old, been giggin for 15. He carries a sawed-off shot gun and has a herd of goats runnin through his yard and a chicken house and a coupla hogs. He's real reclusive and don't want to meet nobody and he certainly knows the pleasures...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: CANNABIS ROAD: The Freakoid Cracker | 2/1/1974 | See Source »

...course, this hasn't happened so far, but if The Times is right, it isn't for lack of feeling. After all, though few journalists have seen fit to mention it, some organizations lately have been models of propriety. Only last week, for example, the Freshman Council threw out an election for the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life because two candidates had unknowingly broken the rules of the campaign by advertising themselves too actively. "Freshmen," said one of the offending candidates in a Crimson ad, "Vote: Neil Gross. Good O1' Gross is Great." With a little luck, the author...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Dynamos | 1/30/1974 | See Source »

...large car is not a matter of choice or status for those of us with four or more children; our families will not physically fit into compact cars. Any time we go anywhere at all with the whole family, a large car is an expensive necessity, not a luxurious frill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1974 | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...Charleston, that he is wearing a pair of rumpled slacks, sport shirt with tail out, and a pair of soft black moccasins that have not lately seen much spit and polish. Yet the short gray hair is still carefully combed straight back, the lean jaw still juts. Taut and fit as ever at 59, Westmoreland swims eight laps a day in good weather and is able to play golf and tennis for most of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: Civilian Westmoreland | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...audience loved his music is easy to explain. The Band, probably the most talented American rock group, again proved its discipline, energy, and versatility. The group's lead and bass guitar playing, the keyboard work, and particularly the singing of Levon Helm were outstanding. In the evening concert, Dylan fit in easily with the group, coordinating his rhythm guitar with the Band better as the performance progressed. During their two solo sets, The Band played mostly old songs. "I Shall Be Released," which Dylan wrote, and Robbie Robertson's "The Weight" and "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down" were...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: The Thin Man Goes His Way | 1/18/1974 | See Source »

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