Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...books. In one of them the new crime of syndicalism is defined as "Any doctrine or precept advocating . . . unlawful acts of force . . . as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership . . . or effecting any political change." These laws are a menace to civil liberties because they do not fix the line between permissible and punishable utterances, and because, though they seem at first sight to apply to thoroughly seditious persons, they can easily be interpreted by juries in times of excitement of include peaceable advocates of industrial or political change...
...story concerns a racket king named Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) whose somewhat coarse way of life is interrupted by the Army. Despite his lawyer's efforts to "put in a fix" on his draft board, Jordan is clapped into uniform. By the standard Hollywood formula this should make a new man of him, but Jordan is really tough; he haughtily defies sergeants and Army discipline, finally kidnaps a pretty canteen hostess (Helen Walker) and makes a getaway. Then he discovers that his double-crossing lieutenant, one Slip Moran (Sheldon Leonard), has usurped his racket throne and worked...
...mention of the word "food" reminded me of my erstwhile hunger, so I called down to the cook and told her to fix up a nice hot plate of forget-me-nots and to be sure and have a prettily-arranged vase of salmon and peas sitting in the very middle of the table. Because I felt that Dorothy May Anderson's father was right: forget-me-nots are more important than food. In fact, it's a wonder nobody has ever thought of them before. They would probably make a ravishingly scrumptious salad. Besides, I never did feature salmon...
...wait patiently till she returns. But the lonely Timar has learned that Adèle herself killed the native waiter, who had seen her leaving Timar's bedroom and threatened blackmail. He has also found that her parleys with the native chief were to bribe him to fix the murder on an innocent tribesman. She has gone to Libreville to spend the night with the Governor and put him in a good mood for the trial. Deftly, coolly, Author Simenon makes the finale a freezing picture of a colonial court in action. When Timar hurries to court to denounce...
Between times he experimented. George Kenney was the first man to fix machine guns in the wing of a plane: back in 1922 he installed two .30-caliber Brownings in the wing of an old De Havilland. Kenney is the inventor of the parachute bomb, which enables bombing planes to fly lower, bomb more accurately. He invented this bomb in 1928, but it was never used until last September, when he dropped 240 of them on the Japanese at Buna. Twenty-two Jap planes were standing on the strip; 17 of them were destroyed...