Word: fittingly
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...meantime it is our task to do for our surroundings here in Cambridge what Thoreau did for his. We each need to create a Walden of our own; we need to fit words to places. We need to make clear our thoughts as we walk down JFK to the river, and articulate them to a friend or a journal page...
Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who won a Pulitzer in 1977 for his psychological study of Lawrence of Arabia, takes the stories literally. "I encountered something here very early on, which I saw did not fit anything I had ever come across in 40 years of psychiatry." He has treated more than 70 abductees, whom he calls "experiencers...
Until the NAFTA vote last week, Clinton was a New Democrat in name only. Though his rhetoric often sounded centrist, he had saved most of his energy to keep promises that fit neatly into the tax-and-spend rhythm of the old Democratic Party. But in NAFTA Clinton embraced a treaty fashioned by Republicans, ignored the advice of many around him and defeated a majority in his own party. This time Clinton earned his New Democrat stripes. "Some fights are definitional," said House minority whip Newt Gingrich, whose party provided most of the votes, "and this was one of them...
...included two Johnson Administrations (Andrew's and Lyndon's) and stretched from the betrayal of Reconstruction after the Civil War to the unfinished dream of civil rights. He was "the Old Man" to generations of black leaders and Moses to their followers. But Old Testament robes were a poor fit, as David Levering Lewis' painstaking scholarship makes clear in W.E.B. Du Bois, the first of a two-part biography (Henry Holt; 735 pages...
Cisneros criticized past political leadershipwhich "saw fit to exploit the disappointment[following Kennedy's assassination] as a pathwayto our nation's highest public offices...