Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drop. Looking skyward, Surveyor spotted Venus, photographed it and transmitted the pictures to scientists, who will use them to obtain a precise fix on the spacecraft. Knowing the position of Venus in the sky and the angle of the camera mirror at the time each picture was taken, scientists can determine Surveyor's exact location...
Brazil's cities are as varied as its people. The Brazilians of Rio-better known as Cariocas-are a lively, loving lot who live for the beach, the fast and easy deal, the artful fix (jeito) and fun and sloppy sports clothes. Nothing seems to bother the Cariocas. Because of power shortages, the lights in various parts of Rio are turned off at various times each evening. Instead of worrying about it, the carioca has invented a game called carioca roulette, in which he climbs into an elevator around shut-off time and takes his chances on making...
Philadelphia's reporters followed a trail of information and canceled checks to other public relations clients. The Pennsylvania Refuse Removal Association, for example, paid Karafin $1,000 after some of its members were charged by a federal grand jury with conspiring to fix prices (the members were found guilty anyway). And when the president of a Philadelphia loan firm was subpoenaed by a state senate investigating committee in 1962, he quickly signed on Karafin, paid him $12,000 over the next few years...
...effective harassment and, because they put the troops on the unaccustomed receiving line of heavy fire, a psychological advantage for the V.C. The Viet Cong cannot use aerial spotters to adjust their fire, of course, and are handicapped by American radar operators, who are quick to get a fix on their positions. Less than two minutes after last week's shelling of Danang, American batteries were blasting the Viet
...fable, Borges imagines Droc-tulft, a barbarian, fighting against the Romans at the siege of Ravenna. When Droctulft's eyes fix on the city he is helping to storm, he sees for the first time "a whole that is complex and yet without disorder. He knows that in the city he will be a dog or a child, and that he will not even begin to understand it, but that it is worth more than his god and his sworn faith and the German marshes." Droctulft deserts and dies fighting for dying Rome. "He was not a traitor," writes...