Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Liberals claim that conservatives aren't fit to speak by denying their ability to reason--which is a part of their very humanity. While certain campus conservatives may derive their opinions more from emotion than from rationality, liberals put all conservatives under one big umbrella of irrationality...
...probed the evolution and hidden purposes of biological phenomena that most people take for granted: menstruation, morning sickness and allergic reactions. Profet's ideas about menstruation fit into a general theory that all these natural processes protect against infection and disease. Morning sickness, she believes, prevents pregnant women from eating certain vegetables or spices that might harm a fetus. Allergies give sufferers a defense against plant-borne toxins...
...makes decisions for me," Hernandez-Gravelle said. "I was already thinking about leaving when the job with the office of affirmative action opened up. It was a good fit with my background...
Stark continued to worry about the degree to which state legislators would modify the plan to fit their ideas...
...poetry, City Poet remains an lively presentation of a feverishly lived life. Gooch's intoxicating re-creation of O'Hara's milieu helps unlock some of the more insular references in his work (O'Hara once remarked to a friend on the small size of his audience: "You could fit the people I write for into your john all at the same time without raising an eyebrow"). Although O'Hara's poems to friends create an intimacy in which the reader can often share, Gooch's book adds a valuable contextual frame to works like "Chez Jane," "For Grace, After...