Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson called for the elimination of hunger in America as a "birthday present fit for a King" and said "each of us can give Dr. King our own personal gift--a gift of our time, our hearts, our convictions and our efforts to continue the work begun...
...free welfare lunches for us po' students," the column read. "How we 'posed to be gettin' our GPAs up when we don't be havin' no food?" In a moment of calm hubris Hart titles the chapter describing the birth of the Review, "All the Truth That's Fit to Print," Hardly...
Father: Besides me and you? Well, only about 20 so far. The newspapers don't like it. Look at this in the Daily Mail: YOU'RE TOO OLD AT 35. THE WELSH HAVE A WORD FOR IT-BUT IT'S NOT FIT TO PRINT. I saw this headline in the Times: "OVER HILL" AT 35 OFFER CAUSES FURY...
...Geraldrne James), and an Indian, Ahmed Kasim (Derrick Branche). Around them all and around every corner hovers Count Bro-nowsky (Eric Porter). In a world where British cliques and clans are mixed with Hindu castes and classes, Bronowsky-a Russian emigre, an aristocrat and a confirmed bachelor-does not fit on any score. But neither does Merrick or the Muslim Kasim. Indeed, Jewel presents a teeming society of outcasts-spinsters, exiles, maiden aunts and homosexuals for whom the Empire was a kind of straitjacket. As the end of an era approaches and the series wends its way through breakdowns both...
Conable, who had studied medieval history at Cornell and American history throughout his adult life, suddenly had live figures to fit into an intellectual framework. He recalls thinking on that day in 1965 that Johnson was "a kinetic personality" who believed he could find an answer to every problem. In Viet Nam it was "victory." Johnson would simply order a Government agency into action, get money appropriated and then wait for the war to be won. Conable's knowledge of history made him wonder. Some problems, like wars, simply had no solutions, and successful leaders understood that. Johnson...