Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairness, Drury must have spent at least half an hour revising the plot of his past novels to fit this new setting. Gone is the Russian threat to destroy democracy that occupied center stage in his innumerable previous efforts. In its place he has contrived a threat to the Egyptian royal dynasty, stemming from the machinations of a priestly cult bent on weakening the Pharaoh and aggrandizing a mysterious golden idol. But lest his fans grow confused at this radical turn of events, he has obligingly included the familiar signposts that dot his other works: the danger of growing unrest...
...have been discovered accidentally. To make sweeteners to order, scientists will need to learn more about the taste buds. Spread across the tongue, these clusters of cells are sensitive to the four major taste sensations: sweet, sour, bitter and salt. Physiologists believe that parts of the food molecules actually fit loosely into receptors on the cells, somewhat like a key in a lock, thereby sending a signal to the appropriate center in the brain. If the structure of the sites could ever be determined precisely, chemists might be able to fashion matching molecules that produced the desired taste sensations...
...hope Mr. Kilson will see fit to apologize to the Jews, blacks, and the Harvard community as a whole for his ill-thought-out remarks. Bill Nusbaum...
...emphasis on the "conditioning aspect" of the game, Panarese said. 'This year subconsciously we thought we were so good we just went through the motions in practice. If we lose to Princeton we want to be sure it's because we're a worse team rather than a less fit one," he added...
...apparent that, until recently, human sexual pluralism has remained absent from our history texts. The achievements of women, black people and other groups have remained obscure through a similar process of selective attention. The manipulation of facts in order to fit preconceived stereotypes (categorical prejudgment) is described by Gordon Allport in his study of prejudice. The very term homosexual often elicits negative feelings (or perhaps nervous giggles) among otherwise sophisticated people...