Word: fitly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What upset black Rhodesian leaders was that Britain had not seen fit to send Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland to the conference. This omission seemed to confirm their long-held view that Britain, once again, was evading its responsibility for the Rhodesian drama. The African delegates hastened to make clear that their objections were not to Richard personally. Even Robert Mugabe, regarded as the most militant of the delegation leaders, stressed that "the view we hold is by no means an attack on the chairman." Bishop Abel Muzorewa went further, saying, "I think he could become a tremendous chairman...
Flagrant Misuse. But the other children sometimes make it terribly difficult for their handicapped classmates to fit in. Such was the case in Alexandria, Va., when, after two months of taunts and loneliness at Bishop Ireton High School, hyperactive Bobby Gorman, 16, hanged himself in the basement of his home last November...
...clarified our goals--which I do not think is the most difficult part of our current review--the next major task is to design a curricular structure that will balance the legitimate claims of individual interest and aspiration with the need for ensuring that Harvard graduates can be accounted fit recruits for the company of educated men and women...
...What am I doing in a white man's school, learning the very white man's rules that have victimized my people for almost two centuries?" "Am I copping out?" "Why must I divorce myself from my culture, which I am most certainly asked to do in order to fit in and succeed on the white man's terms?" When these students heard their home, their families, their people, their heritage thrown so heedlessly into the categories of "disadvantaged," "underprivileged," they began to feel that instead of being given an opportunity to learn and participate freely within the mainstream...
...aging. "They are the results of role playing... They [the aging] are supposed to be physically and intellectually infirm." Example: many old people are uncertain, meandering drivers because they are expected to be, just as many women come to adopt the male notion of the dithering woman driver. "Older, fit drivers are the least dangerous on the road," writes Comfort. "By 70-plus you have experience, and the accident-prone fraction of the population is dead or disqualified...