Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their price advantage in the U.S. as the impact of two dollar devaluations and raging worldwide inflation drive up their costs. Last week Volkswagen of America raised the average price of Beetles a hefty $325, or 14%; other foreign car makers are certain to follow suit. That happens to fit in nicely with the pricing strategy of the U.S. automakers, who are posting substantial price increases on their import-battling small cars, while adding only marginally to the prices of slower-selling larger models...
...down the Suez Canal, Egyptians and oil men-to say nothing of their customers in the West-dreamed of a pipeline linking the Red and Mediterranean seas. Such a link (see map following page) would make unnecessary the costly circumnavigation of Africa by the giant tankers (too fat to fit the canal) that now deliver Arab oil to European refineries. It would also produce revenues that would go a long way toward filling the big hole left in the Egyptian treasury by the closing of the canal. For all its promise, though, the pipeline seemed as unattainable as permanent peace...
Moon does not fit the standard image of the guru out of the East. At 53, he is, in fact, a millionaire whose holdings in various enterprises (including ginseng tea, titanium production, pharmaceuticals, air rifles) are worth perhaps $15 million. The business success has grown hand-in-hand with his religious endeavors, which began, as he tells it, with a vision of Jesus Christ on a Korean mountainside in 1936, a vision that told young Moon-then a Presbyterian-to "carry out my undone task...
...array of changes buffeting him about, was lost without a coherent view of the world. The Confucian emperor was obviously a French vassal; how could he be respected anymore as the pinnacle of the universe? Where did the new large landowners and the managers of the rubber plantation owners fit into the old scheme of things...
...hard living. Even in the conclusion, however, Howell respects the individuality of each of the people he knew. He uses a novelist's style to describe the people he knew on Clay Street, and he draws few conclusions, because he wants to broaden the reader's thinking, not to fit it to a set of his ideas...