Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with 19," wrote a Marine Corps rifleman to his family after the battle. "Believe it or not, you know what killed most of us? Our own rifle. Practically every one of our dead was found with his [M16] torn down next to him where he had been trying to fix it." TV newsmen, in particular, took up the cry that U.S. troops were being betrayed by their own weapons. Last week two congressional subcommittees were studying the "M16 controversy...
...Atlanta bureau chief. When Harry died at 48 four months ago, his many friends at Miles discussed what sort of tribute to pay him. "Harry was not the kind of guy you sent flowers to," recalls Trustee Mrs. David Roberts III. "So I said, 'Let's fix up the bell tower and name it for him instead.' Harry always kidded us about how bad it looks...
...Honey Pot's sweetest moments come when Harrison is trading double entendres with his ex-mistress or pirouetting around his mansion like Nureyev on LSD. But even he cannot fix the film's flaws...
After the 17 years were up Abbott could keep its brand name and go on advertising in medical journals and in PDR, but now other companies can sell sodium pentobarbital too. Still, during those 17 years of monopoly power, Abbott was able to fix the name Nembutol very well in the heads of doctors and patients. Patients still ask for it and doctors prescribe it. Who would ask his doctor for sodium pentobarbital, even though it's the same thing chemically? That is the evidence of how well the public is propagandized by the drug concerns, which spend $600 million...
...Though it was impossible in that day (as it is difficult now) to fix the time of conception and no one explained how the fetal sex could be predetermined...