Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While his handsome wife Jovanka beamed down from a visitors' box, Tito strode into the hall to the cheers of the crowd and sat gravely through a formal reading of the new charter. Afterward, looking remarkably fit for a man who will be 71 next month, he happily auto graphed copies of the constitution...
...raises as much as $150,000 a year as compared with the $5,000 typical of the early '50s. He has doubled faculty salaries (the average Shimer salary is now $6,100), and doubled the faculty too-always with an eye for the man who would fit his concept of a community of scholars...
This is like bragging that plucking a rooster makes him crow better. Though jazz composers and arrangers have shown that improvisation is not always essential to good jazz, the scores they write are tailored to fit the styles and sounds of individual musicians. There are no standard jazz compositions that every musician is expected to play in the same way; the rhythmic subtleties that jazz requires defy notation by the composer...
...Fleming's wish for intellectual privacy expresses an individualism which tends toward the iconoclastic, and he often finds well worn thought a fit subject for mockery. Studying history because it offers a means of enlarging one's experience, he feels, in the tradition of Jamesian pragmatism, that it can lead to hypotheses for action. But, lest he sound as pretentious as some of the thinkers whom he enjoys debunking in his course, Mr. Fleming quickly adds, "To be frank, I study history for the hell of it. Some people enjoy playing the violin. I play history...
...Commonwealth introduced a cap found at the scene of the murder, which Sacco's employer said was similar to a cap Sacco often wore to work. Sacco said the cap was not his, and it did not appear fit...