Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually tried to take driver's education while I still lived in New York. Unfortunately, it didn't fit into my schedule until the spring of my senior year. My enthusiasm for driving lessons was on a par with my enthusiasm for the rest of my classes. In other words, I didn't go. I skipped most of the classroom time and nearly all of the movies, except for the one about drunk driving that I was promised would be very exciting. I did attend my actual "road time" assignments, led by Keith, a dead ringer for radio deejay Howard...
...human rights movement, because it was about people being treated as human. Being able to work, vote, walk the streets safely, own homes--in effect, it was about being able to live. After hundreds of years of slavery and oppression it was a struggle to survive not to fit in. None of this had to do with lifestyle, just life. If you were to step into an elevator with a gay woman and a Black woman, only one of these difference would be easily apparent...
Arcadia offers the heartening spectacle of a dramatist who, with commendable industry, has found the unusual but handsome vessel into which most of his obsessions neatly fit. And Stoppard makes it look easy. With Arcadia, he has fabricated a work as simple as a perfect cube and as complex as the physics of a breaking wave. Or make that the physics of the turbulent air in a room where many people are clapping...
Trying to fit a perfect phrase (in the occasional circumstance that a headline writer comes up with one) into and awkwardly small spot on a page is just one of many tasks for which an assistant night editor or proofer is responsible...
...fourth-ranking Republican in the House and a field general in the war to pass the "Contract with America," Boehner (pronounced Bay-ner) looked at home. But his lieutenants, who were arrayed around the table strewn with coffee cups and cigarette butts, were not so natural a fit. They were not fellow lawmakers or even congressional staff members. They were lobbyists representing some of the richest special interests in the country. Still, he treated them with the business-as-usual deference of a colleague. "O.K., let's get going," he began with relaxed familiarity, and then listened to their reports...