Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Mills tore cartilage in his right knee while playing soccer last May, and has not been fit enough this season to reclaim his starting position...
...adult passions, horses and aviation. The result is more than an occasional "Yes, but . . ." murmured by the bewitched reader. Did she really kill a warthog with a spear as a young teenager? And just how did Tom Campbell Black, the great flyer who was her teacher, fit into the story...
...called her, spent money when she had it and ran up bills when she did not. In important matters, which meant clothes and horses, she went first-class. She had women friends -- Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) was an early protector -- but she liked men better. Her maternal instinct was fitful at best, and her appetite for casual sex made uproarious disarray of her marriages. Blixen once wrote of her own husband Bror (who became Beryl's occasional bedmate) that "he looked down benevolently and lasciviously upon womankind and had been raised to believe that the entire world existed...
Noonan finds that analyzing America's nesting habits is half the job. Today closets have new priority and are "being treated like rooms," as they expand to fit more active life-styles, while bathrooms "have become fortresses" of marble, mirrors and glass. Master-bedroom suites get special attention because working couples spend much of their leisure time in them. There has been a resurgence of "libraries" (home offices to the unredecorated) for dual- income families to stash books, papers, computers and answering machines. Baked ceramic tile is in vogue for every surface from countertops to foyer floors, and the mixing...
Zeckhauser's successes show her to be a competent administrator. But with the qualities that might fit her for this promotion comes a record of insensitivity to the community...