Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frilly dresses, she would try to rip them off. She preferred to play with boys and stereotypical boys' toys--in one memorable instance walking into a store to buy an umbrella and walking out with a toy machine gun. By second grade, she had come to suspect she would fit in better as a boy. But her doctors insisted that these feelings were perfectly normal, that she was just a tomboy. "I thought I was a freak or something," John told Diamond and Sigmundson in interviews conducted...
...Dartboard would like to commend the University Housing Office for their professional handling of the First-Year lottery results. As anxious residents of Thayer Hall waited patiently for word of their randomized fate, a considerate Housing Officer, charged with hand-delivering the envelopes containing the lottery results, saw fit to instead deposit them in a lovely pile in front of the dorm elevator. There the abandoned envelopes sat as the morning wore on and as rising anticipation ate away at the souls of dorm inhabitants...
Clark began the novel as an experiment. "I didn't want to do any kind of literary writing," he claims. Yet literary writing seems only fit for Clark, who describes the conception of this novel in terms of the imagery of its opening scene--"a train, and a man in this train, speeding along in the bitter winter in an amber light...
...displayed contrarian instincts more clearly than in the slo-mo rental-car business, from which U.S. automakers have been peeling away as fast as they can (see box). Yet Silverman gladly paid $800 million last year for No. 2 Avis, a global brand that he views as a natural fit with his hotel and resort time-sharing businesses. After overhauling Avis, Silverman plans to sell a stake in the company to the public...
With his cherubic appearance and unpretentious, rambling speaking style, Arledge never fit the classic image of a news president. He occasionally rankled network executives with his free-spending ways, and those under him sometimes complained about his "chaotic" management style. Some insiders say Arledge's focus was wandering increasingly in recent years; day-to-day operations were mostly handled by Paul Friedman, executive vice president of news, who was passed over for the top spot. Still, Arledge is widely revered by ABC News veterans, who toss around words like genius when referring to him. "He's the best news president...