Word: affixation
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...herself a few hours a day to "work things out," or just "drift." All of us, sad to say, drift with her, back to the early days of her marriage, when she would thread a string from the bedroom to the front door of their little apartment and affix a note for Brad: "Roses are red, violets are blue/ Follow this string to an extra-special screw." Other recollections include birth ("Funny," Betty ruminates, "how you forget the actual pain and power of birth -maybe so you'll try again"), the confession of Brad's first infidelity...
...compromise that would maintain U.S. technical superiority and Soviet numerical superiority, that could then be worked out in detail by the bureaucrats. Additionally, the Moscow summit will undoubtedly produce several lesser accords, and every day will probably see one much-photographed session at which the two leaders will jointly affix their signatures to some document. "A signing a day keeps Rodino at bay," quips one White House...
...last January's Indochina cease-fire agreement. The product of their labors did not quite seem commensurate with the effort. Last week they produced a "communiqué" that even the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) and the usually recalcitrant government of South Viet Nam could affix their names to at a stiff ceremony inside Paris' International Conference Center...
McGovern dismissed demands that war crimes tribunals in the U.S. affix blame for the conflict. "This is not the time for recrimination but for reconciliation," McGovern said...
...dreams he was selling if they were to be truly successful. Finally, Disney settled into comfortable maturity, ever maintaining his right wing politics, so much so that when Lyndon Johnson decorated the Great American, he wore a Goldwater button on his lapel where the President was supposed to affix an award...