Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need more luck than anything else. In the first couple of games, I made some exceptional plays that showed the coaches I could tackle people and not get killed. Coaches all have a predetermined idea of what a cornerback is supposed to look like. I never did fit the description, and I still don't." Coaches were unprepared for Fischer in other ways too. "I spent the first couple of days in camp just running around in my shorts," he recalls. "Eventually, they went to a college and found some pads and a helmet that fit me. The first...
...present version requires only that the President send to Congress short-and medium-term employment goals over the coming five years. In addition, the Federal Reserve Board would have to report on how monetary policy would fit into the jobs goal. The bill also calls for a strong commitment to "reasonable price stability," but sets no specific inflation targets...
...include many Arabs-though the chain's top officers are such fervent Zionists that Marks & Spencer is on the Arab blacklist. Middle Eastern customers must snip the St. Michael's label out of the clothing they buy before bringing their purchases home. Still, M & S has seen fit to post signs in its main branch stores warning against pickpockets in English, French, German, Arabic and Farsi (the main language of Iran...
Carrillo's U.S. visit climaxes a series of image-building junkets. In Moscow for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, he got a much publicized snub from the Kremlin leaders, who decided-after looking at his prepared text-that they could not fit him into the speaking schedule. This only burnished his sought-after image of independence. Said one diplomat in Madrid: "The Russians were booby-trapped. Carrillo came out looking like a stalwart democrat...
Eric Carle's bright, elemental The Grouchy Ladybug (Crowell; $6.95) is about a mite spoiling for a fight. But every opponent has a stinger, a scent or a size that is superior. Carle has designed the book to fit the tale: as the heroine meets larger animals, the pages grow in size. None of the confrontations manage to sweeten the insect's disposition. That transformation is accomplished by powers that neither ladybug nor reader can resist: hunger and exhaustion...