Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Education. Boss Pew still winces when he recalls that he "fell for" Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. He continued to support the New Deal until NRA tried to fix oil prices and regulate the ruggedly individualistic oil industry. This was too much for Joe Pew. Said he: "Price-fixing is an evil, wicked thing." Every time the price of gasoline is raised 1?, he figures, exactly 6¼% of the total business dries up. He believes that price-fixing and production-curtailment, beyond ordinary conservation, are sins against God and Nature...
With no opponent at all, Strong Man Batista was in a worse fix than if he had had a strong opponent. If he is elected unopposed, his enemies can raise the cry of dictatorship, which Strong Man Batista would hate to hear. At week's end he pleaded with Dr. Grau to reconsider his withdrawal, to file again before the deadline, April...
Captain Margesson's great & good friend Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose sterner political chores the Captain does, was not in quite such a bad fix as Parliament sat again. But he was in no good fix. Great Britain was grousing about the war's inactivity and part of the press was after ministerial scalps, if not that of Mr. Chamberlain himself. The Prime Minister had to do something, and the best guess was that he would shuffle, but not shake up, his Cabinet, probably reduce his nine-man War Cabinet, possibly give Winston Churchill more war powers (TIME...
...Heaven was her only hope; But one of the stagehands forgot to fix the rope: So she didn't get to Heaven Till a quarter past eleven, Little Eva, Little...
...great granduncle Franz Josef-in a two-room suite like Franz Josef's at Schönbrunn, with books, a table, chairs, an iron bed, a washstand. He drove to his studies in a second-hand car. When it broke down he gladly crawled under to fix it, but because royalty could never appear in lowly shirtsleeves, had to leave his coat on. When faithful Hungarian legitimists heard about this, 101 of them passed the hat and bought Otto a snappy new Steyr...