Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Horner said she debated taking the appointment for more than four months. She said she took it only under the condition that it be kept open for her until the end of the academic year because she will not be able to fit the monthly board meetings into her schedule until then...
...White House staff has become accustomed to a new kind of presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when...
...town looks like a slum-clearance project, and its 8,240 people are among the poorest in Italy. Volcanic springs, more like oversized tea kettles than proper Ve-suviuses, gurgle and smolder in the interior and, from shore to barren shore, there is not a drop of water fit to drink. Water, like almost all the island's food, must be brought from the mainland...
Windows that fit for Steven S.J. Hall...
...possible to imagine cases in which UNESCO would be right to exclude a government from its activities--a government whose public activities seemed to clearly exclude the promotion of culture, science and education. Lots of governments that might fit this categorization are in UNESCO now--Libya and the Soviet Union, both of which supported Israel's expulsion, are among them--but it would be absurd to argue that Israel, despite its repression of political activities in the territories it occupies, is a prime offender...