Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anecdote illustrating the strength of his hands and wrists is that he wore a diamond ring with a hinge on it. The jeweler was unable to give him a regular ring that would fit over his large knuckles...
...Ride and studied the relationship of inches, yards and meters. One of her classmates, Maurice Brown, reported that "she's real smart. That's because she writes real neat." Mrs. Meeder's ver dict was that Amy was "very unaffected, very natural, very independent. She just fit in beautifully." In Plains, she attended a predominantly black school, and Stevens has a similar racial mix. Of the 217 students, 60% are black and 30% are foreign born-mostly the children of employees at embassies, including those of India, Chile, Rumania and Pakistan...
...down. On the set he would sometimes retreat into himself. But he would recover. He would joke, have fun, kibitz around. Then the next day he would be depressed again." Says Komack: "His real despondency, whether he could articulate it or not, concerned the questions: 'Where do I fit in? Where is my happiness?' I would tell him, 'God, Freddie, your happiness is right here. You're a star.' He'd say, 'No, that's not happiness for me any more...
...decision was indeed a blow to Catholic ecumenists. Said one top member of the Vatican's Secretariat for Christian Unity: "It was a pity that the congregation did not see fit to consult us. In future discussions with Anglicans, a lot will depend upon the nature of the arguments used. It will certainly hinder mutual recognition of ministers." Women activists were even more upset. Said...
...uncompromisingly thoughtful to read the Times. The only relief in columns of soberly worded dispatches was a crossword puzzle or a chess problem, never a comic strip. Gossip was minimal, scandal sanitized-in keeping with the prim slogan, "All the news that's fit to print." The paper seemed edited for someone with a meticulous interest in the rise and fall of Cabinets in obscure countries. TIME, in its own parvenu days in the shadow of the august Times, used to refer to it saucily, with a mixture of admiration and exasperation, as "the good grey Times...