Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...managed to capture the mayor's office for the Democrats in the face of a Republican legislature. The Republicans began legislating powers out of the mayor's hands and into its own patronage grab bag, with the result that an authority has been so divided it was impossible to fix the blame for the Cocoanut Grove disaster in 1942 and Hub bureaucracy has been left hopelessly confused and uneconomically corrupted...
...year ago (he sold his San Antonio house in 1941), the city began to wonder about him. She looked tacky, her policing was sloppy, she had floods and bad drainage. Then a polio epidemic caught her health department off balance. Citizens were getting fed up with the bumbling, fix-nothing administration of spluttery Mayor Gus Mauermann. Even Maury's old enemies began phoning him in Los Angeles and Maverick-for-Mayor stickers began to appear...
...trying to whittle down the press party, finally sent a priority list of 52 to State Secretary George Marshall with a strong protest against the "shockingly inadequate" quota. The New York Times and leftist PM, on the same side of the fence for once, suggested that the Russians either fix up some Quonset huts, or let the meeting be moved elsewhere. Even if Moscow gave in to Marshall's renewed protests, there were headaches ahead. For correspondents, Moscow was short on wire facilities and English-speaking censors. And the men on the scene might find, as foreign correspondents...
...honest British action. The partition plan that was presented this fall has been dropped by Whitehall after both Jews and Arabs refused to accept either part or all of the proposal. Jewish circles envisioned little merit in any "autonomous" Jewish State in Palestine that would be unable to fix its own immigration quotas and thus determine its own destiny. The Arabs, (although it is doubtful that the extremely vocal land-owning Arab spokesmen represent real Arab sentiment), have often stated that "if the British proposal permits entry of one more Jew into Palestine, it will mean war." Needless...
...familiar business of having characters invisible to their fellows on the screen, yet conveniently apparent to the audience, walking through walls and evening thunderstorms. All this is involved in a trail tale about an old gentle man who dies and insists upon staying around a while longer to fix up some family affairs, with the help of a resurrected father. But it doesn't really amount to much...