Word: fix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days on the beat, Peter meets a carefree pusher named Quince (Jack Watson), his two sadistic sons, a detective with a badge for a heart (Jeremy Kemp), and a libidinous bird named Fred (Susan George). Soon he's up to his jug ears in trouble. Quince wants to fix him, the detective wants to corrupt him, and Fred just plain wants...
Critics' Cries. Although his camp now claims considerably more than the 1,312 delegate votes that Humphrey will need to win in Chicago, the Vice President's operatives are straining to promote an open convention, lest the critics' outcries of "fix" tarnish his victory. Humphrey's survival in November, they reason, depends upon his emerging from Chicago with the image of a cool, competent and widely popular candidate. Bitter floor fights, coupled with the expected massive demonstrations outside the hall, would hardly foster that impression...
...plane, developed by the French Breguet works and originally called Breguet 941, was renamed by its U.S. licensee, the St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas Corp. For the tests, the 188 is being loaded with the latest in electronic gadgets, notably Decca-Omnitrac navigation, which, among other things, can fix the plane's position and plot alternate flight routes...
...fix it but I don't know...
Another recent headache has been Herbert's pair of 15-watt "Redifor" army radios. For the past four days, fierce geomagnetic storms have prevented Freddy Church from receiving even a routine fix on the camp's drifting position. Even more powerful transmitters located on the nearby U.S. ice island T-3 have recently failed to reach the Naval Arctic Research Lab here...