Word: fix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fired for Smoking. In trying to fix his trio in a modern perspective and yet do them justice, Hofstadter does not evade such criticism. He is often at lis best when throwing a few darts of his own. Beard's rendering of the Constitutional Convention, he suggests, makes the proceedings look like the secret and conspiratorial work of tycoons carving up some new banana republic...
though the screams of orphaned children fix...
...account seethes with contempt for conventional liberalism and the man who embodies it: the Democratic nominee. "Humphrey simply could not attach the language of his rhetoric to any reality; he was perfectly capable of using the same word, 'Freedom,' let us say, to describe a ward fix in Minneapolis and a gathering of Quakers. He was a politician; he could kiss babies, rouge, rubber, velvet, blubber and glass. God had not given him oral excellence for nothing...
...would fix the maximum rent for any Cambridge apartment at a level equal or less than the rents charged on Jan. 1, 1968. The new law would not apply to small dwellings with four apartments or less...
...Times, in 1927, he was al ready a leading figure in American journalism. He had been shot at while covering Kentucky elections for the Associated Press in 1909, challenged to a duel for insulting a French newspaperman in Paris in 1918 ("Somehow, I managed to crawl out of that fix"). As assistant to Publisher Ralph Pulitzer on the old New York World, he was as signed to "ride herd on Herbert Swope," the paper's imperious editor, and to take over the editorial page when Walter Lippmann was away. It was, he says, an impossible job, but he cherishes...