Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate for Governor, even though he had gained much notoriety for his flamboyant drug arrests of Kansas students. At the University of Wisconsin, says Tim Tully, 28, a graduate student and veteran radical of the 1960s, "all the activity of late in Madison, political or otherwise, would fit in a shot glass...
There are no historic or legal precedents to which I can turn ... that precisely fit the circumstances of a private citizen who has resigned the presidency of the United States. But it is common knowledge that serious allegations and accusations hang like a sword over our former President's head as he tries to reshape his life, a great part of which was spent in the service of this country and by the mandate of its people...
Overcrowding has become an uncomfortable fact of life at Harvard, and House office staffs are learning to live with it. One frustrated senior tutor threatened to "cut three inches off" each person in an effort to make them all fit, but most House secretaries agree that the squeeze won't be as tight this year as it was last year...
...fit to print the opinion of a "writer," it is just as significant, important and as democratic to note the experience and occupation of a cotton-mill worker in South Carolina or cowboy in Wyoming as of a former Justice Department official or retired businessman...
...sentence was not exactly orthodox, it was nonetheless in line with a growing search for alternatives to jail. Judge Sepe, 47, has become Miami's foremost proponent of what might be called creative punishment. Rather than hand down penalties that fit the crime, Sepe tries to set probation terms that may prevent continued offenses. Thus a young marijuana smuggler was ordered to go back to college, get a job, report his grades to the court and write a paper on whether marijuana has harmful effects. A youth convicted of disorderly conduct and violently resisting arrest was required to teach...