Word: fittingly
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...Jane was working within 1/16 of an inch of the brain stem. He placed a wire under both lamina--the bony covering of the spinal cord. He took bone from Reeve's hip and squeezed it down to get a solid fit between the C1 and C2. Then he put in a titanium pin the shape of a tiny croquet wicket and fused the sublaminal wire with the first and second vertebrae. Finally, he drilled holes in Reeve's skull and passed the wires through to get a solid fusion...
Criticized as it was for a lack of Olympian drama, the Republican National Convention was not completely devoid of entertaining moments. This was, after all, a convention that denied speaking privileges to famously controversial ideologues but saw fit to invite swimsuit model and hemorrhoid-cream spokeswoman Kim Alexis to address delegates on the importance of God and family...
When he tried to cast himself into a true-believing, fire-breathing conservative standard bearer, the clothes just didn't fit. The more purely ideological the message, the less sincere he sounded delivering it. It was hard to believe his denunciations of affirmative action when he had supported civil rights since the '60s. It didn't help his credibility to attack Hollywood moguls for making movies that he hadn't taken the time to go see. His sudden embrace of $548 billion in tax cuts last week sounded craven coming from someone who had fought against deficits and snarled...
Ford recalled his decision to name Dole, then a Kansas senator, as his running mate in 1976. "I found Bob Dole fit to be president then; I find him even more qualified today," Ford said. He won a rousing cheer for calling Clinton "a convertible Dodge. Isn't it time we had a trade...
Stengel reveals the shallow roots of his argument that civil engagement is alive and well in this country when he cites Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow's suggestion that we are eschewing large, bureaucratic organizations for smaller, flexible ones that "fit our life-style." This sounds more like convenience-store values for those who can't be bothered with deep commitment. Stengel's apologist thinking is especially disturbing in the context of a society in which the middle and lower classes are rapidly losing ground while a small group of the economically elite amasses more and more of the nation...