Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first shot for the Army, which is strong for the merger, was fired across the long, mahogany table in the Senate caucus room by sobersided Robert Patterson, Secretary of War. Like the first shot in a bombardment, it was to fix the range. The future peace of the world, said the Secretary, would depend not only upon the policies of the U.S., but also upon the strength which the U.S. maintained to back up these policies. Having fixed the range, the Secretary began to pepper the target with arguments to prove that unification of the armed forces was necessary...
...neither quite as simple nor as easy as that. Constance Bennett is a veteran actress, highly experienced and highly opinionated. "All my life," she says, "I knew what was wrong with production, but this is the first time I could say, 'Wait a minute, let's fix it.' " Apparently she said this often (to everybody from scriptwriter to booking agent), regally and grimly (because she desperately wanted to succeed in her new role...
...anyone else, he said. But one of the first things he had learned about military government was that "the outs are coming around saying that the ins are Nazis. . . . More than half of the German people were Nazis and you'd be in a hell of a fix if you tried to remove all Party members." Most Nazis had merely been forced into the Party, anyway, he said, or had joined it because it was a good thing at the time...
...Just as I was dictating this the ordnance people blew up some German mines somewhere very close. It looks as if we're going to have to fix some more windows...
...Eighty enraged ranch hands galloped into the tough town of Upper Frisco to rescue their comrade and avenge the indignity of the arrest. Sheriff Baca locked himself in a mud-and-log hut, kept his six-shooters blazing for 36 hours, pausing only long enough to fix some tortillas and beef stew. When the battle ended, four cowboys were dead, many wounded. Nineteen-year-old Elfego had not even been singed...