Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high-water mark. Pan American increased its seats to and from the Caribbean by 41% this year (to 26,000 a week), but so many people are there now that no seats are available coming back before Jan. 10. Late bookers found BOAC in the same merry fix. Puerto Rico had upwards of 75,000 visitors last weekend alone. Jamaica's bookings were up 25% from last year. The sun-seekers poured in with their presents already bought, and were prepared to sing Silent Night on Christmas Eve in the hotel lounge. But Yuletide was actually just something between...
...market price is given the opportunity to respond to foreign aid demand," Shuman told the Farm Bureau's annual convention in Chicago, "it should be possible to discontinue the present control programs, and price supports could be used only as originally intended-to stabilize marketing, not to fix prices...
...into reverse, he pulled the stick back; he moved it right or left for sideward motion. In his right hand, he clasped a notched pistol grip that controlled smaller thrusters used to pitch, yaw or roll the Gemini around one of its own axes-maneuvers that could fix its attitude in space. By working both controls simultaneously, Schirra was able to make his spacecraft respond as smoothly as a trained seal. Stafford, meanwhile, was busy with a circular slide rule and a heavily crosshatched plotting chart in his lap, checking the on-board computer's data and relaying information...
Along with tapes of those conversations, the state's case included a detective's testimony that after Robles was arrested, he said: "I went in to pull a lousy burglary and I wind up killing two girls." Needing money for a heroin fix, Robles said he entered the girls' East Side Manhattan apartment through an open window, picked up two kitchen knives and started prowling around. Finding blonde Janice Wylie, 21, asleep in the nude, he sexually attacked her. When Roommate Emily Hoffert, 23, walked in, Robles said, he grabbed her, bound the two women together...
...Does Is Run. Statistics aside, there is no way to fix Brown's place among the great running backs of history-except to say that he is different. Somebody will always insist that Jim Thorpe or Johnny Blood or Bronko Nagurski or Red Grange or Steve Van Buren was the best runner who ever lived. Thorpe was flamboyant and unpredictable; he could be very good when the notion struck him-or very, very bad; he was always at his best when he had a bet riding on the game. Nagurski was a runaway truck who was lucky...