Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to hit every time. How does it work?" When the salesman learned that I had never used a pistol before, he recommended that I get training from a professional at a practice range. I asked about the parts of the gun: the clip, the bullets, where everything fit. The gun holds a total of 17 bullets, and a spare clip is included...
...people" doesn't exist for Buddhists, for example. Not all religions can be fit into the paradigm presented by "Christ and the Church." This problem is obviously not unique to Christianity. It arises whenever any one point of view is made to speak for others...
...approved, they wait again for the fateful phone call telling them an appropriate child has been found. Meantime, they scramble to assemble birth and marriage certificates, medical and financial statements, personal references, and the crucial "home study," done by a social worker and attesting that the aspiring parents are fit for the task. Finally, they may have to travel to the donor country -- and stay anywhere from two weeks to six months, facing more interviews and court hearings before they can bring their child home...
...swooping through the air on a bungee cord 15 ft. above the ground, trying to master a kind of aerial basketball. Sound like Mitty's fantasies have got a little outrageous? Obviously, you haven't seen American Gladiators, the syndicated television show on which ordinary, albeit very physically fit, people compete in athletic events against a squad of professional male and female athletes and body builders...
...aging, perennially injured Larry Bird worth an automatic bid, as opposed to Dominique Wilkins and Mitch Richmond? Instead of a well-constructed squad, we are sending to Barcelona the Olympic equivalent of an All-Star team. Other players, perhaps unsung but nonetheless solid, would possibly have fit in better with the workings of the team. Can you really see 10 or 12 of the biggest egos in basketball not turning the Olympics into a one-on-five slam dunk contest...