Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Robert Dole, the President's running mate, called the remarks "stupid" and "ill-conceived." G.O.P. Senator Edward Brooke, a black, demanded Butz's resignation. Jimmy Carter declared that Butz's crack was "disgraceful," and repeated his view that the man was not fit to sit in the Cabinet. Some White House insiders expected that Butz would resign as a result of the furor...
...Syrians, in effect, were demanding an enforcement of the so-called Cairo agreement, a 1969 deal that was supposed to control the movement of Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon. The P.L.O. has ignored the agreement from the beginning by carrying out operations against Israel from Lebanon as it saw fit. To obey the Cairo accord now, Arafat realized, would be to destroy the last unrestricted political base left to the Palestinians in the Middle East. The P.L.O. chief refused to withdraw from the mountains and sent urgent pleas for support to other Arab countries, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...
...days like these that ruin football seasons for some and make them for others. For in weather that was not fit or otters, Harvard's 17-point talent advantage was quickly negated and Cornell splashed its way to its first triumph in over a year, against a Crimson squad that has to be wondering why it always seems to rain on Saturday in Cambridge...
...changes on campus bother Kimball. The Harvard he knew two years ago, he says, was a more cosmopolitan place. "The people I knew on the wrestling team freshman year were different, came from entirely different backgrounds, but now they all fit into the Harvard mold. I'm afraid that's what happens from being here...
Sally Roberts and Rita Funaro, who missed the first match, found their way to the University Health Services and once pronounced physically fit, went on to surgically remove their opponents in straight sets. Roberts took her number one match 6-1, 6-1, while Funaro breezed at number...