Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooking classes, for his writing and entertaining, and for his superb collection of majolica and antique wineglass rinsers in his handsome Greenwich Village town house. The bold checks he favored for jackets and the inverness Sherlock Holmes coats he often wore accented an epicurean life-style that would have fit grandly in the Edwardian...
...been uncovered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), which is currently carrying out the investigation, many pro-choice activists continue to insist that the alarming number of attacks last year could not have been a coincidence. But the entire question of whether or not they bombings fit the category "terrorism" has become insignificant in light of the fact that a large investigation is being carried out--500 agents from BATF have been assigned to the case--and-arrests and convictions are beginning to be made. In addition, the attacks have been condemned both by "pro-life...
...five-hour summation to the jury on Thursday, Barr told the jurors to reread the disputed paragraph and ask themselves if it fit the judge's test * of defamation. "Look at the words again," Barr said. "Do the words say that? Do the words mean that to you?" If not, he said, "that's it. The case is over." Barr reminded the jurors of the testimony of TIME Senior Writer William E. Smith, who wrote the cover story. If Smith had meant to convey that Sharon consciously intended or encouraged a massacre, Barr argued, "he would have said...
While Shula is reasonably analytical, he finds Marino largely self-evident. "He's an amazing young man, but he's not amazed with himself. Everything Dan does just seems to fit him. Frankly, we haven't been questioning too many things about him. Last year, when he was 22, the coaches didn't sit around worrying how he was managing to command the huddle or the offense. Nothing he has done has seemed out of character or against his nature. 'You're not ready for this, Dan.' 'You can't do that, Dan, it's only your second year...
...that. Led by Astrophysicist Jerry Nelson, a team at the University of California designed an unorthodox mirror that will not be a continuous concave surface, like Hale's, but 36 hexagonal pieces of specially shaped glass, each 6 ft. across and 3 in. thick; the segments will be fit together and will move in concert to act as one giant parabolic mirror. That harmony is possible only with the aid of a computer- controlled sensing and positioning system, which will realign the components 100 times a second by as little as one one-thousandth the width of a human hair...