Word: jibe
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...only thing really wrong with G & S's Yeomen of the Guard is that it will be so hard to get tickets for it. Usher your way in if you have to. G & S, like Jack Point, are ready to "jest you, jibe you, crank you, wrack you and riddle you," and the tremendous finesse with which they manage the whole operation will leave you as exhilarated as poor Jack Point...
...Paul Suchecki) glibly compares the number of used cars in a lot to the quantity of hemorrhoids or crotch hairs he has. This tally isn't his only vulgar observation and surprisingly, they all slip by inoffensively. But Peter Fletcher's version of the naive cop doesn't jibe with his cohort's naturalness. His lithe, eager responses to the fat cop are always a little too slow in coming--his resemblance to an inept Stan Laurel fails to complement Suchecki's realistic performance...
...Sourcebook is written in a style designed to jibe with its politics but, bound to offend the linguistic purist. For one thing, the language, when it's not merely rhetorical, is often distressingly colloquial, as in this comment on comic books: "The more drecky the material, the more blatant the sexism, the more overt the misogyny." Feminist expressions (language shapes consciousness and all that) abound, expressions like "Goddess knows" which ring a bit untrue, or the substitution of "MDeities" for doctors. The difficulties of constructing a graceful feminist language are certainly formidable, but fortunately the Sourcebook's analysis are sufficiently...
Greece is bolstering its military strength in case of an armed confrontation with Turkey over Cyprus and over territorial rights in the Aegean sea, where oil has been found. Funneling money to an American university doesn't jibe with political priorities and could hurt the Caramanlis government...
THIS HISTORY encompasses the period from the nation's founding to at least the 1930's, and if the ideology based on this historical experience is no longer valid, it still exerts a powerful hold--as an idea which does not jibe with present reality--on working class consciousness. This ideology is the myth of escape from industrialization, an escape from the industrial city to the pre-industrial country, and by its nature is an individualist wish for self-reliance and liberation...