Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejected his plea for a review. He was also in solitary confinement-voluntarily and indefinitely -because his testimony against alleged killers in two other trials had led to reports that mobsters were offering $50,000 to have him murdered. Geraway, 37, would probably still be in that deadend fix were it not for Steven Duke, a quixotic law professor from Yale with a penchant for seemingly hopeless cases...
Intellectual Fix. No one should be too much put off. The book's quip-filled tirades, like Shaw's prefaces, provide a splendid intellectual fix on the drama. Coffin temporarily leaves his wife and children, as well as Rinsler's movement, which proves as unscrupulous as any Establishment organ. He then tries to practice one-on-one enlightenment as straw boss to a crew of black migrant apple pickers on his ancestral New Hampshire estate. The results are hilarious but depressing...
...function. I memorized all the assigned passages, never chewed gum, and wore skirts no shorter than two inches above the knee. I knew she liked me best because she let me fill her water glass. I asked myself the question that Hebe must have asked perennially, "Do I dare fix her drink...
...Fix the time-clock, bribe the refs, and raise a cheer...
...obvious sense, Nixon's wrong, Sixty-one per cent of the electorate assured Nixon a welcome mat at the White House doorstep. But they didn't welcome Nixon to lie, rob, spy, fix judicial decisions to his heart's delight, or use his great and good position for medium to fair personal profits here and there. Not even a welcome mat at one's own home is a mandate for thieves to come and rob him blind; the people may have picked up Richard Nixon's option for the presidency, but they included no clauses in their second four-year...