Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LaHaye's wife, Beverly, who has written that only Christians are fit to hold office, will remain as campaign co-chairman; but LaHaye said she would resign if her presence caused Kemp further political problems. Timothy LaHaye has said his writings were taken out of context...
...this bizarre paradox come about? To be included on HUD's down-and- out list, a city must meet three out of six criteria of neediness. Beverly Hills fit the bill because its growth rate from 1970 to 1984 was less than 4.6%, its retail and manufacturing employment increased by less than 3.3% from 1977 to 1982, and at least 20% of its homes were built before...
...speech, inventing a gobbledygook foreign language, pretending to hoodoo Owen, or simply staring forward with his forlorn puppy eyes in feigned ignorance or injury. The Foreigner is essentially Blackstone's show, and he carries it off triumphantly. He and the rest of the cast really make the Shue fit...
...inspired by the donjons that the feudal barons built along the Seine and the Loire at the end of the 11th century, but in English cathedrals like Wells (constructed between 1186 and 1300) it acquired a definitive grandeur as the sign of the Church Militant. No cathedral will fit in the Royal Academy, but other things have. To see the engrafting of a high ecclesiastical and court style from across the Channel onto the Anglo-Saxon stock, set forth in these objects, many of which are of the highest aesthetic quality, is fascinating...
...work and police records and met with little success in treatment programs. Drinking was a habit they seemed to pick up on their own, with little encouragement from friends or other influences. When Cloninger checked how often alcoholism appeared in the sons of men who fit this description, he found it surfaced nine times as often as in the general population. This variation of the disease, Cloninger concludes, is heavily influenced by heredity. Because it appears primarily in men, he calls this form "male limited" alcoholism...