Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radio Galaxy. The strongest "radio star" in the sky had the astronomers baffled for many years. Its powerful waves came from a patch of sky in the constellation Cygnus, and optical astronomers could find nothing there. At last the Palomar telescope, guided by a new and extremely accurate radio fix, photographed an extraordinary scene that looked like a collision of two enormous galaxies 500 million light-years away. Galaxy collisions are possible, though unlikely, and they might emit radio waves because of churning gases between their hundreds of billions of stars...
...Communist publications to be labeled as propaganda, deprives them of overt support from Moscow. Thus abandoned, the Worker, etc., seem to be drifting rudderless in Moscow's wake. Gus Hall, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party and a regular Kremlin visitor, was usually good for a navigational fix-until the State Department yanked his passport...
Woods, who was hand-picked for the job by Black himself, has the same sort of deceptively casual air as Black. He likes to drape his long, thin frame over a chair in his First Boston office, fix visitors with his liquid brown eyes and invite them to "walk around the problem." The walk is friendly and pleasant, but when it is over, the visitors usually find themselves accepting Woods's view...
...panties delivered to GUM are only dirty brown. Why are lace trimmings so shoddy? Not enough lace or lacemaking machines. Only four factories in the country produce nonrun nylons, and the 83 stocking-repair shops in Moscow are so far behind that it may take a month to fix a pair of hose. Square-fingered Soviet gloves, complained Izvestia, "make even the most graceful hand look like a paw." Hair rinses, shampoos and large curlers are hard to find; one reporter in Moscow waited more than four hours for a hair dresser, still was twelfth in line when the shop...
...Decker, then president of Corning Glass Works, Research Director William H. Armistead listened wide-eyed to a short but characteristically pithy discourse. "Glass is a very good material," mused Decker. "It's transparent, it's inert [non-corrosive]-but it breaks. Why don't you fix that?" Last week Corning announced that its scientists had come remarkably close to filling Decker's improbable order with a chemically strengthened glass called Chemcor. In a demonstration session at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Corning executives bent, twisted and banged panels of the glass. But the Chemcor, which withstands...