Word: jibe
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...Here was the familiar Jefferson--egalitarian aristocrat, slaveholding author of the Declaration of Independence, globetrotting homebody--plumbed one step further. Ellis used his empathic powers to convey how Jefferson explained himself to himself--as a young idealist constructing "interior worlds of great imaginative appeal," even if they didn't jibe with reality, and later on keeping his contradictions alive with an "internal ability to generate multiple versions of the truth...
...Here was the familiar Jefferson--egalitarian aristocrat, slaveholding author of the Declaration of Independence, globetrotting homebody--plumbed one step further. Ellis used his empathic powers to convey how Jefferson explained himself to himself--as a young idealist constructing "interior worlds of great imaginative appeal," even if they didn't jibe with reality, and later on keeping his contradictions alive with an "internal ability to generate multiple versions of the truth...
Megan, whose appointment was announced late last week, said that the goals of OFA jibe with his own beliefs about the significance of the visual and performing arts to undergraduates...
...Enter the economy. Two weeks ago, Democrats seized on the fact that Bush's back-loaded tax plan - which dates back to a primary fight with Steve Forbes and was designed at the time not to over-stimulate a booming economy - does not quite jibe with his gloomy talk about the current economic lethargy. They introduced a $60 billion instant tax cut meant to let the air out of Bush's tires by removing the urgency from the debate over the $1.6 trillion version. But last week Bush caught up, throwing his support behind a retroactive cut - on the condition...
...Gore camp, realizing that any legal attack on absentee ballots tends not to jibe p.r.-wise with its call for "every vote be counted," has distanced itself from the suit. But Gore himself, pressed Wednesday by CNN's John King, allowed that "if the ballots for one party were illegally changed and fixed, and the ballots from the other party that didn't have that information were rejected and thrown away, that doesn't seem fair...