Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Conforte, a thrice-convicted felon, former international fugitive and once owner of the Silver State's most notorious brothel. The raspy-voiced, Sicilian-born Conforte resembled a character in a Mario Puzo novel as he related how he had given Judge Claiborne $85,000 in bribes to fix cases for him. Defense Attorney Oscar Goodman tore his testimony apart, offering evidence that Conforte was wrong on crucial dates and times. Claiborne was later retried-with Conforte conspicuously absent-and was convicted on tax charges...
...been in the show 22 years." She was saying this at midnight, the night of the dress rehearsal. "My husband has a party boat; he's a sport fisherman. I get up at 5 o'clock and get him off to work. I fix his lunch. It's rough during rehearsal, but this is good for me. I stay home right much of the time, and there fore this is an outing. Backstage we talk everything from politics to religion...
...throwing things at the viewer, the television screen sucked the viewer into itself--not just between the tubes and circuitry, but right into the storyline? Imagine sitting down on a rainy Saturday night in front of The Love Boat and suddenly finding yourself on board, asking Isaac to fix you a frozen margarita...
...high-cost medical advances and a graying population, the $59.8 billion program, which serves some 30 million Americans, could go $97 billion in the hole as early as 1995. Said Eva Skinner, chairman of California's Legislative Coalition for Health Care Cost Containment: "Congress produced a quick fix to get us through the election...
...dresser, was immediately repossessed, and her half sister went off to live with her natural mother. Erma and her mother, 25-year-old Erma Fiste, shared a bedroom in her grandmother's house, and each day Mother Erma would get up at 5 a.m., fix breakfast for her daughter, see that she was dressed for school, and then leave in time to work the 7 a.m. shift at the Leland Electric factory. An adult observer would have seen a spunky young widow doing her best...