Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabral, a member of a group of right-wing Dominicans who were plotting against Trujillo. They apparently had expected more extensive material help from the CIA. When Cabral saw the rifles, he angrily declared: "This is the pyramid of arms, the arsenal we were promised that wouldn't fit into a garage?" In any case, four of the conspirators took one of the rifles with them when they ambushed the dictator in May 1961, though they actually gunned him down with a sawed-off shotgun fired at pointblank range as he cringed by the side...
Traditionally, the period of transition from recession to recovery is a time of economic confusion. Last week a large batch of statistics, resembling so many fingers pointing in opposite directions, clearly mirrored that unsettled condition. Generally the figures fit the picture of an economy finally poised to climb out of its deepest slump in almost four decades, but they also point to a relatively slow recovery...
...tend to redefine that goal as "good"; we no longer see what's wrong with it. When our goal is popularity with or power over other people we tend to conform to other people's notions of what a good companion or reasonable leader is. We try to fit ourselves into a pattern specified by someone else. We become the perfectly attentive lover or the perfectly dutiful student or the perfectly reliable worker...
...will be made obsolete and unemployed as a result of age or sex or skin color. Some will make it, but probably at the expense of their ideas. But this is difficult to see, especially when all of our energy is directed towards not seeing, towards making our perceptions fit someone else's vision...
...corrupt elements of their rival, Christianity. Typically, two of the best-known tracts from the Nag Hammadi library, the previously published Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Philip, contain sayings of Jesus purportedly collected by two of his Apostles but often twisted by the Gnostics to fit their own radically ascetic, relentlessly spiritual outlook...