Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horses. No one in the palace, however, is hoping for too much. "This is not a bright boy," says one royal-family observer, "but a good, clean English boy." An English boy without, so far, an English title. Already the curious are wondering when the Queen will see fit to elevate Mark Antony Peter Phillips, who is Anne's 13th cousin, three times removed, to the peerage...
...PHRASE "WOMEN'S GROUP" must mean more than the sum of its two words. Does every group of women, gathered for whatever purpose, fit into this category? Probably not. Otherwise feminists could not use the term so freely when they wanted to indicate a radical gathering of like-minded women to foster social change for the benefit of women...
...would not have been my choice. I always had reservations about the other vice president, Mr. Agnew. As to where Ford could fit with comparison to Agnew, I suppose there's not a great deal of difference--in terms of qualifications...
...Eliot House was built," Taurisano instructed. "We're afraid to replace them--they might be structural." One by one he took cheese cake shells out of the oven. A junior on the tour started to steal a batch of chocolate cake, but the yard-long pan did not quite fit under his shirt and he replaced it undetected...
...Robert Merriwether, a Harvard professor, 42, still fit from sculling on the Charles-and lonely from puttering in the lab-makes the familiar, by now ritualistic slip. While wife and children splash off the coast of Maine, he has an affair with a Radcliffe summer student, a girl young enough, as the saying goes, to be his daughter...