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Word: fixedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week trial, the defense produced witnesses who testified that they had seen Evelyn Scott after May 16, 1955. Apparently none of this testimony convinced the jurors: after deliberating for 29 hours they found L. Ewing Scott guilty of first-degree murder. Two days later the jury sat again to fix the sentence of life imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Lady Vanishes | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...range in Japan, out of uniform after an undesirable discharge, quested for a job and anonymity. But Girard's Japanese wife Candy was getting a warmer reception from the locals than Bill. While he was unsuccessfully seeking work, she was neatly fitting herself into his family, even helped fix the Christmas turkey. Girard was moaning meek and low: "All I want to do is get me a job, make a good living, be a good husband and just be an average guy. I don't want no part of the limelight ever again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Congratulations on the excellent article about Richard Nixon - the No. 1 man in our Government. As for the Demos in '60 -let's fix 'em with Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...goal is world leadership in the new science of rocketry; there is no point in wasting time and energy in trying to fix the blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VANGUARD'S AFTERMATH: JEERS AND TEARS | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

This left the main burden of the early tracking operations up to the Naval Research Laboratories, located in Washington, which by prior arrangement was to attempt to get a "fix" on the satellite by radio. It had established special "Minitrack" stations across the country for this purpose. Unfortunately, however, these stations were geared to receive signals on 108 megacycles, the frequency the Russians had promised to use in their satellite's transmitter. They had to be completely overhauled in order to pick up the 20 and 40 megacycle signals which the Soviets decided to use instead...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Smithsonian Astronomers Keep Hectic Pace | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

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