Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kant, earned a Ph.D. at the University of Munich and his medical degree at the University of Frankfurt. An early convert to Nazism, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. On the railroad ramp at Auschwitz, where Mengele presided over the selection process, deciding which of the terrified prisoners were fit for slave labor and which were fit only for the gas chambers, he wore white gloves and highly polished boots, and occasionally whistled fragments of Wagner. In doing so, he defiled music, just as his cruel "medical experiments" defiled science and his whole life defiled philosophy. He defiled Germany...
...Davis, Calif., while his wife pursued her Ph.D. in hopes of helping to support them both. He listened to classical music, yet it did not soothe him. Referring to his decision to stop dealing in Government secrets, he wrote to his spymaster boss: "I realize this doesn't fit in with your advice and counseling over the years. In all honesty, I was happier in the '60s and early '70s than I've been since. I have agonized over this decision. I hope you can understand." His ringleader understood only too well, predicting in a note to his Soviet contact...
...Michael's best friends was startled when "he came in one day and said, 'I think I'm going into the Navy.' It just didn't fit with the partying, the surfing." Michael met his future wife Rachel, 22, a college student living in Norfolk, after he enlisted in 1982. They have been apart most of the time since he went to sea. At the time of his arrest, a 15-lb. cache of classified documents was found near his bunk on the Nimitz. Rachel tearfully told a Virginian-Pilot reporter, "All I want to do is close my front...
...most famous example -- demanded a dramatic anchor only the lyric theater could provide. Of the thousand or so songs he composed, the only familiar one not written for a show or movie was The Last Time I Saw Paris. He mercilessly cut any song that did not fit its situation. Conversely, he was a great hoarder and tinkerer. Alter just a few bars of Till the Clouds Roll By and presto! it becomes Look for the Silver Lining. Invert the melody, depress the tempo and voila! the Cotton Blossom theme from Show Boat is alchemized into Ol' Man River...
...last week and in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., Oshkosh, Wis., and Malvern, Pa., assailing a tax code that "runs roughshod over Main Street America" and calling for an end to "unproductive tax shelters, so that no one will be able to hide in the havens privilege builds." Looking ever more fit and sounding ever more feisty, Reagan relished being back on the road, taking the offense in pursuit of the boldest initiative of his presidency: a sweeping revision of the nation's unwieldy and loophole-loaded tax code...