Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, who had begun to think that the Marshall Plan would fix up everything, had trouble focusing their minds on this distant crisis. The President was sunning himself at Key West. State Department officials said they had known all along that it was going to happen; they were only surprised by its suddenness. But the upshot of the matter was just what it was nine years ago. Czechoslovakia had fallen-this time to Stalin...
...many of the stories they got from the Associated Press were wooden and hard to read. But none of them would-or could-say why. To find out what was wrong, the A.P. hired Dr. Rudolf Flesch, Vienna-born psychologist, author (The Art of Plain Talk) and Mr. Fix-It of writing. Dr. Flesch's report shocked...
...persisted from the bathroom off Petrillo's office, and the desk buzzer that swings open his office door wouldn't work. These annoyances finally burned him up. "Seme days everything goes wrong!" he shouted. "You can't get the damn plumbers here. They don't fix the buzzer...
Phase II would come when the enemy was prepared. When would that be? "The conclusions of the Commission ... fix as the target date by which we should have an air arm capable of dealing with a possible atomic attack on this country at Jan. i, 1953. For convenience we will refer to this date...
Henderson added that rationing could take effect within two months, price control "almost overnight." Any time a government wants to fix prices or groups of prices and make it stick, it can get reasonable control...