Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Procaccino never tires of life-style comparisons. "Mr. Marchi," he says, "does not fit into this category of people that have to work with their hands, with the sweat of their brows and so forth." He tries to portray Lindsay as an effete jet-setter: "A clean neighborhood is more important to people than poetry reading." That, presumably, was a crack at Lindsay's narration of the text accompanying a performance of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. "I am not one of the select few," Procaccino insists. "I am not one of the Beautiful People...
NEWSMEN, especially press photographers, have this absurd fascination with being on the scene of a great news event. They begin to be interested in only those things that fit the press's arbitrary formula for "news." They can't help themselves. If anything is going to happen, they want to be there to record it; but it has to be something they expect, or have seen before. so they know its importance when it starts happening...
...union leaders by what they consider his anti-labor stand. Roy Wilkins, in a statement for the Leadership Council on Civil Rights, asserted that Haynsworth's confirmation would "throw another log on the fires of racial tension." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany testified that he was "not fit to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...emergence of a viable moderate opponent to the conservative Byrd machine for the Virginia governorship this summer was not terribly startling. He would fit into the old mold if the Organization couldn't win the election. There was a third candidate for governor-but most political observers considered...
French social order ensured disorder. Soldiering and conspiracy were almost the only trades open to the younger sons of an already partly superfluous nobility, and many of them saw fit to follow both. Friction between Huguenot and Catholic never really ceased. Conspiracies against Louis and Richelieu coagulated regularly around Gaston, Louis' vain and frustrated younger brother, and Marie de Medici, their harridan mother...