Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONLY A QUACK offers a quick, painless fix for a serious illness. And although we may be tempted at times to seek such expedient treatment, sound judgement tells us to forebear...
...also attempting to terrorize its students into silence at home. When that attempt failed, it summoned the protesters before Harvard's equivalent of the Star Chamber, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities--a body assembled contrary to its own regulations requiring student representation, and which failed to fix or try charges at a reasonable time. The irony that Daniel Steiner, Harvard's general counsel, should have observed was that the University was emulating South Africa's repression of political dissent...
...winner at the age of 20, was prompting comparisons with the greatest pitchers of the past. But the drug disclosures could not help putting the game under a cloud. Not since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, when eight Chicago White Sox players admitted taking bribes from gamblers to fix the World Series, has the national pastime suffered such a loss of public esteem...
...District Judge Charles Norgle. "The man is dying," Defense Lawyer Patrick Tuite asserted, and Norgle announced that because the defendant suffers from a rare liver disease, he was setting the penalty at only twelve years in prison. LeFevour had been charged with taking some $400,000 in bribes to fix drunken-driving cases and parking tickets in Cook County traffic court. Declared Norgle: "Richard LeFevour had to decide whether to remain an honest judge. Again and again and again, he made a personal, informed, voluntary decision to accept unlawful compensation...
...good night, Luke Hunsberger breaks at least two guitar strings during a five hour performance at Holyoke Center. Each time one pops, he stops his strumming, sometimes says a word or two and pauses for a couple of minutes to fix the string...