Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down without Effort. Once you're out, Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...
From that moment, the improbable became the possible: the unpredictable Dodgers had a chance. Anything could happen: the Dodgers even tried to make the Lavagetto lightning strike twice. The Dodgers were in a fix again next day. Joe DiMaggio had slammed his second homer of the Series into the upper tier of the center-field stands, and the Yanks were leading. With two out in the ninth inning, the Dodgers had the tying run on second base. Pinch-Hitter Cookie Lavagetto stepped up to the plate-and struck out. Now the Yankees were in the lead, three games...
...also asked that the College take "all possible steps" to get men out of the makeshift dormitory quickly, but declined to fix responsibility until he had made a further investigation of the matter...
...famed Sudanese leader whose career came to an end at the hands of the British at Omdurman in 1898. Sayed was not strictly a delegate. He was in town to watch the Assembly handle Egypt's case. Some day his own state might be in the same fix. Meanwhile, he was prepared to enjoy himself. "Before we came," he told a reporter over a lemonade last week, "we thought America had one car for each four persons. Now we're convinced there are four cars for each person...
...jail sentences for those who "conspire to maintain or increase present prices." Ever since, the antitrust division's 160 lawyers have been working overtime filing charges against leaders of the rubber, brake-lining, color film and oil industries (TIME, Sept. 1). All were accused of conspiracy to fix prices...