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...between Britain and the U.S. BRANDT. West Germany's Social Democratic Chancellor Willy Brandt traveled to Oslo last week to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize. Nixon's first task is to assure the Ostpolitik-m'mded Germans that he will do nothing in Moscow to bollix up Brandt's own efforts to broaden a dialogue with Russia and Eastern Europe satellites. Brandt will want Nixon's assurances against a precipitous withdrawal of any or all of the 215,000 U.S. troops in West Germany, which are a vital factor in his dealings with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Meetings Are the Message | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

...million cars have seat belts, and only 36% of the drivers with belts use them all the time. Hundreds of irate motorists have complained to auto companies that the seat belts are uncomfortable to sit on, and frustrated drivers have used fists, hammers and screw drivers to bollix the red-flashing "Fasten Seat Belts" sign in the Ford Thunderbird. Psychologists reckon that people reject the seat belt because it is a fear-inducing reminder that accidents can happen, and it insults their ability to avoid them; many would rather indulge their foolhardy feelings of derring-do and invulnerability or their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY CARS MUST-AND CAN-BE MADE SAFER | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

...sort of above-it-all air that for years made him an object of suspicion in many party circles. This feeling came to a climax during the 1960 campaign, when Lodge was Nixon's running mate. Even while conceding that Nixon did almost everything possible to bollix it up, many Republicans still believe that Lodge added the last losing touches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Lodge Phenomenon | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

...faubus on TIME. Having defined "faubus" as intransitive [Oct. 7], you faubused by making it synonymous with the transitive "bollix," and made a really orval faubus when you used it transitively: "The Democratic Party has been faubused." You ain't no Preservator of grammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

faubus (faw-bus), v.i.; FAUBUSED, FAUBUSING. 1. To commit an error of enormous magnitude through malice and ignorance. 2. To make a serious error, to commit a fault through stupidity or mental confusion. Syn. Blunder, err, bollix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Crumbled Foundation | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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