Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed in front of Emerson , the bells of Memorial Church chimed noon, and Biff admired the Coop sportsjacket that was now his "uniform." "How well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect...." Yet even before he finished this reflection, he felt something slam into him and knock him off balance. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a little foreign-looking man scramble up from the ground and rush over...
...oblivious to others. He is too close in spirit to Henry Adams not to realize the dilemma of the intellectual in politics. Like Adams he comes of aristocratic American stock, is attuned to public service, and yet in a nation where "politician" is still a dirty word, is fit only for skepticism and irony...
Miami's efforts to fit refugee Cuban doctors into U.S. medicine, to restore their self-respect and to make use of their skills, originated in an unfortunate incident a little more than a year ago. A difficult emergency operation in one of Miami's public hospitals came at the end of a long, hard day, and nerves were frayed as the surgeons hurried to get out of the operating room. Even so, a surgeon trained in Cuba was shocked to hear a colleague bark at a male scrub nurse: "Get out of my way, you Cuban nigger...
...years ago that Director Otto Karl Bach started his search for a painting that would fit in with his tiny cluster of top treasures, ranging from a Veronese and a Tintoretto to a Degas and a Renoir. He was not necessarily looking for a big name, but at the Wildenstein Gallery in Manhattan he happened to spot the Rembrandt in its marvelously fussy 17th century frame. The price for the painting was $95,000, but the gallery was willing to sell it on the installment plan. By last week the museum had collected from private gifts two-thirds...
Then he drugs her, and when she wakes next morning in his bed, he tells her she is no longer fit to become a bride of Christ, that to save her honor she must marry him. She runs away in horror and disgust; in guilt and despair he hangs himself...