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Word: fittingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handgun that you can't do with a rifle? You can still hunt with a rifle, join a shooting club, stop a burglar, or even join a revolutionary militia. Perhaps you can't open a drawer and blow a hole in your spouse's chest in a wild fit of rage, but might regret having done that afterwards...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Time to Ban Handguns | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...version also saddled with Julian Holloway's cutesy capering as Eliza's debauched father, Dolores Sutton's vamping as Higgins' mother and sets that make the Covent Garden flower market look like a Florida condo in mid- construction and render Higgins' study fit for a Vincent Price horror flick, Chamberlain shows calculated charm and wit. He sings better than Rex Harrison and looks terrific. His best scenes are with the normally bland Pickering, whom Paxton Whitehead makes droll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Than Fair | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

Brilliant professors and truly horrendous professors do probably receive appropriate ratings, but most teachers who do not fit either extreme (which probably amounts to most of the professors at Harvard) never really get a proper evaluation...

Author: By Uzma Ahmad, | Title: The Evaluation Situation | 1/7/1994 | See Source »

First of all, the idea of departmental evaluations is a good one. If departments could customize their evaluation forms to fit specific courses or at least specific subject areas, then student responses would be more precise and therefore more meaningful...

Author: By Uzma Ahmad, | Title: The Evaluation Situation | 1/7/1994 | See Source »

...EXPERTS. If the abuse case comes to trial, expert witnesses will be asked to fit Jackson's public behavior to the psychograph of a child molester. "What we see in the pattern of a fixated offender," notes clinical psychologist Nicholas Groth, co-author of Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents, "is that he seems to get along well with people significantly older than him and those who are younger. He has a significant absence of peers. He lives more in the world of childhood than the adult world." And when the sex is gay, the offender is often homophobic, Groth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Music | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

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