Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like a quarterback throwing a forward pass and catching it himself. As Virginia's wartime governor, urbane Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr. had often told the people what was wrong with their state university and had persuaded the General Assembly to spend $4,500,000 to fix it. Last week ex-Governor Darden took on the presidency of his languishing alma mater...
...first specific statement on Germany's political future. He started, true to form, by denouncing the Western nations' plans for a federalized Germany as a "plot to dismember" the country. But there were signs that the Russians might compromise. Molotov, suggesting that the Germans themselves fix the degree of federalization, proposed that the old Weimar Constitution be used as a basis for a new one. This drew immediate objections. Cried France's Bidault: "The ghost of the Weimar Republic will not find favor with the French people...
...would be surprised if his general program for cooperation, now being studied, by a Vermont legislative committee, is adopted by the farmers. He has learned enough about Vermonters to quote the old saying: "I don't see how a Vermont farmer manages to fix a piece of ground for corn. To do so he has to cooperate with the horse...
Cried the decorative Democrat: "The average . . . family has its budget bursting to the seams." The U.S. and the average U.S. family were in the same fix...
...home eating my junior food," said K. C. Adams, editor of the Mine Workers Journal. "It's already chewed-lamb and vegetables, chopped liver and prunes and applesauce that looks like gunpowder." Mr. Adams has a delicate stomach. "I asked Lillie [Mrs. Adams] to fix me some tea. She made it out of one of those little tea balls." Mr. Adams made the motions of gently dipping a tea ball into a cup, " 'Lillie,' I said, 'this tea with no leaves won't do me no good. I need the leaves and a gypsy...