Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under battle pressure, the artist often resorted to a sort of sketchbook shorthand-a line or two to fix the horizon ridges, a picket fence of pencil strokes for the men on the line. These were later worked up into more finished sketches, much of the detail supplied from the artist's own pocket reference book. "Infantry, cavalry and artillery soldiers," wrote Harper's Theo Davis, "each had their particular uniform, and besides these, their equipments, such as belts, swords, guns, cartridge boxes, and many other things, were different. As many as ten different saddles were...
...United Mine Workers can get him." And a fifth? "Hell, if we can't get him. we might as well quit. Go talk to him." A sixth? "No, but I'll fix that bastard...
...National Interest." Goldberg came armed with a potent weapon. President Kennedy, he said, felt that a strike settlement was required "in the national interest." Key to the truce: management and the three striking unions led by the Seafarers agreed to delay a decision as to which side should fix the size of work crews; they would wait a year for recommendations from an Eisenhower-appointed commission on railroad work rules, headed by former Labor Secretary James Mitchell...
...speak for one hour on every bill that comes to the floor. Without firm traffic control, the legislative process would swiftly collapse into chaos. To exercise that control, the Rules Committee is equipped with powers to 1) decide whether a bill gets to the floor at all, 2) fix a maximum number of hours for debate on any particular bill, 3) set "gag rules" to restrict amendments to pending legislation...
...volunteer advanced research class. Given their heads, Melbourne's students brewed up a brain storm. One built an artificial kidney, another a digital computer. They tried everything from inducing cancer in mice to making toads lay eggs out of season. It got so that local repairmen refused to fix anything at the school because the kids could do it better...