Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yates, left the prison with the boys handcuffed together in the front seat. They drove to Weirsdale, where Deputy Yates picked up his own car and went on ahead-to look for lynchers' roadblocks, McCall explained later. Then, said McCall, a tire went flat. He got out to fix it. When McCall opened the car door to let Shepherd out, said McCall, the prisoner suddenly smashed at his head with the sheriff's flashlight and yelled to Irvin to get his gun. The sheriff pulled out his revolver, and shot each prisoner three times. Then he radioed Yates...
Last week Zerbee announced that the Navy had started buying an improved instrument, the Zerbee Celestial Fix Finder. A nightmare of gears and scales and dials, it looks something like the dream sweetheart of a mechanical monster. It has talent, however. When a navigator wants to find the position of his ship at night, he observes with a sextant the position of two stars. By setting dials and fiddling with scales, he feeds this information and a few other figures into the machine. Barring errors in observations, the machine tells him the position of the ship, accurate to one mile...
...Though they had piously severed relations last year with other basketball-fix colleges, the same finger of scandal was leveled during the summer at players from...
Briefly, it tells of three dead people whose souls are given three days to decide where they would like to go, Valhalla, Erehwon, or Xanadu, all substitutes for censored sections of the Afterworld. There are two subplots: a search for the Ring of Nibelung and a fix of the Hoop Race in Valhalla, not to mention a takeof on the Cocktail Party and what seemed to be an allusion to F. Scott Fitxgerald. Let it suffice to say it was confusing...
...part of a suspected move toward Godliness, next to which reporters claim, is Cleanliness, City officials are sponsoring a vast campaign to clean Cambridge's ears, paint Cambridge's cheek, and fix Cambridge's broken nose. Campaign heads expect the College to participate in the ears division...