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Word: fitly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Start sewing a baseball hat big enough to fit Reggie Jackson's head...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: March, End of Winter Sports: Boredom Reigns Supreme | 3/8/1977 | See Source »

...face is 42 now, and wrinkles cut lightly through the freckles. The legs are tantalizingly fit, but the right heel is blistered, bandaged and slippered, the result of a walk down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. "One of the things that is so difficult for me in this business is that I have to be so careful how I get out of a cab, how I walk across the street, how I might turn an ankle," reflects Shirley MacLaine. "I've gotta be careful about everything." Maybe so, but 22 years after her first movie and 23 years after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Shirley MacLaine on the Move | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...inclined lately to the near-orchestral, but his sax still sounds the way a glider might sound if it made music--it soars and dips smoothly, apparently without artifice. He plays a long and difficult set as if he'd suddenly heard the phrases in his head and they fit together each time. It is perhaps this technical facility that bothers critics--there are certainly moments on Caliente (in the song "Fireflies" for one) when Barbieri's music comes close to sounding like the soundtrack for an ad for one of those fancy sports cars that handle so well...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Mardi Gras, Gurus & Dragonflies | 3/4/1977 | See Source »

...sessions after the show, patrons often ask, "What's normal?" Lowndes' usual response: "Normal is anything you're not ashamed to tell someone on the first date." Should people seek sex partners who fit roles in their fantasies? "No," Lowndes told one baffled young man. "Seek someone you can love. The game playing will arise naturally out of affection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex Fantasy on Broadway | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...arms control before it is tested. But the Ford Administration made a mockery of the entire process. The statements' discussion of the impact of the cruise missile ran just two sentences; the B-1 bomber was given a short paragraph explaining that the number of bombers planned for procurement fit neatly under the ceilings negotiated at Vladivostok. The ACDA, under Warnke's predecessor Fred Ikle, politely acquiesced in the Pentagon's legalistic abortion of Congressional intent...

Author: By Parker C. Folse, | Title: Warnke's War | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

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