Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following weeks I led the crusade to combat dandruff by installing shampoo vending machines in the houses. We fought untidyness with comb dispensers, scurvy with Vitamin C dispensers, acne with Clearasil dispensers. We hired nurses to stand ready at all houses 24 hours a day, ready to fit women with diaphragms in an emergency. Next to the nurse was stationed a barber ready at all times to sell emergency haircuts to anyone who was unable to make it to the Square...
...believe it was Sherlock Holmes who said go out and get the facts and build a hypothesis with them. That to me is much too reasoned. My response is to come up with the broad hypothesis and fit the facts into it. This style is a much more exciting means to go about pursuing the truth because what is truth anway except what I perceive it to be. The one truth I held in high school, that of Harvard, proved to be false. I'll never have such a love affair again...
Last year the Cambridge library received a $15,000 grant from the state Board of Commissioners to create the service. Some of that money went to build the shelves to the MBTA's strict specifications. Spokesman Vincent Carbona said MBTA officials wanted to ensure that the bookcase would fit in with the station's general appearance and would not cause a safety hazard...
Paul Simon's earlobes are too big, and his droning voice doesn't match the sprightly bow tie. Bruce Babbitt has trouble working up a convincing smile. Pete du Pont comes across as an eager accountant, and Al Gore could fit comfortably into the cast of Dynasty. All of them, however, could take a few lessons in TV communication skills from the Soviet Union's new media star, Mikhail Gorbachev...
...fact, to the 52-story, 600-ft. level of the NatWest Tower, dwarfing the 365-ft.-high St. Paul's dome. According to Gavin Stamp, architecture critic of the London Daily Telegraph, "Wren's skyline was lost, not owing to any conscious decision, but to a sort of collective fit of absence of mind...