Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...department store and a well-dressed lady gets treated better.' 'Most people look down on the poor like me because you have to live so shabby and can't help yourself.' 'I'm a carpenter and I won't fit with doctors and lawyers or in country club society. We have different interests and want to do different things.' 'I would suppose social class means where you went to school...
...town, huh? And you want to fit in? Understandable. And you say already know reading period is for doing your course reading and the school term is for extracurriculars? Good, you're way ahead of the dorks on your hall, even if they got higher SAT's than you did. Don't sweat it--after all, you were just put here because no one else admitted on their application to...well, I won't embarrass you, let's just chalk it up to diversity...
...Sunday, the U.S. pressed hard on both. There was no dramatic turning point on the Palestinians, just "a lot of fine tuning and adjusting so all the jigsaw pieces would finally fit," said one U.S. official. Alternative proposals on language went back and forth for approval, options were accepted and rejected, but by mid-afternoon the compromise formula letting the Palestinians participate in the negotiations and have a say in the final status of Gaza and the West Bank had been adopted...
...themselves. "We hire people whether we need them or not because that is the only way we can get our share of the [federal] money. We don't really like that." Governors, said Ray, would prefer to receive revenue-sharing funds that they may use as they see fit, to reduce taxes if necessary. But both Congress and the Carter Administration are reluctant to surrender any federal controls. Concluded Ray: "I suppose if we Governors could convey just one message to our federal brother it would be: 'Please, whatever you do, don't impose new congressional...
...volume and intensity, the instruments laying under and layering on one another until the song shatters around your ears like a sheet of glass falling off a fast-moving truck. This is heavy-metal music with easy-listening inflections, rock fierce enough for the FM stations, flighty enough to fit right into Top 40 AM radio...