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Word: fittingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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What was the source of Goldhagen's unprofessional fit? His piece in The New Republic had such disregard for his University's motto that he may just have been seeking to immunize his upcoming book from any eyewitness evidence that what we must learn from the Holocaust isn't that all Jews are good and all Germans...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: A Holocaust of Scholarship | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...push him away from her life, he becomes more insightful, telling Janie that she's "shy and clumsy" and that she makes her life "harder than it has to be." Ironically, Janie uses Marty's advice and insight to dump him, as she realizes that they don't fit together and that she needs to live on her own, without her parents and without a boyfriend, but with her own talents and sense of motivation...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: Life Stinks | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

Bruce said the incident at the Tax Man didn't fit the "smash and grab" pattern. "They had the guts to stick around and take a lot of stuff rather than just smashing the window and making off with whatever they could get," he said...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: String of Crime Plagues Mass Ave. Businesses | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

Kahn-Leavitt saw all the suggestive possibilities of the "seemingly opaque and meaningless" passages of Martha's diary. "Laurel pieced it together and made it all begin to fit in, and I wanted to create the same experience on film...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai and Bonnie Tsui, S | Title: Professor of History Paves Way for Fine Film | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...down in two notebooks in the months before his death. These recollections begin with the event, more than a half-century earlier, that changed his life: the night the Nazi soldiers came to his parents' house in their Polish village. Jakob, then seven, was still small enough to fit into the hiding place behind a wall, but his sister Bella, 15, was not. The aging poet remembers what happened next with understated anguish: "The burst door. Wood ripped from hinges, cracking like ice under the shouts. Noises never heard before, torn from my father's mouth. Then silence. My mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A HOST OF DEBUTS | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

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