Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state of mind in the cities the Vice President was to visit. For what has happened should never have been allowed to happen and those who are responsible for the management of our relations with South America must answer to the charge of gross incompetence. We must fix and we must correct the causes that led our officials into this fiasco -into what it would not be exaggeration to call a diplomatic Pearl Harbor...
...House Armed Services Committee. "Come on." Replied Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nathan F. Twining, trailing Vinson into the Congressman's private office: "Yes, sir." Twenty minutes later, Carl Vinson emerged, hat on head and cane in hand, and tossed a final instruction over his shoulder. "Fix it up," said he, "so I can read it tomorrow." With that, he went home, leaving Nate Twining to work on a revised version of the Eisenhower Administration's plan for reorganizing the Defense Department...
...Khrushchev answer, last week, that ambassadors ought to fix only housekeeping details, that foreign ministers ought to talk only about substantive matters "by common agreement." i.e., subject to Communist veto, and ratify a summit meeting regardless of disagreements...
...change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed out, he got a rattletrap that Garcia himself had long ago discarded...
...matter where the experts may eventually fix the dose of radiation that can be considered safe, Commander Dobbins was sure that atomic sub crews-within a few yards of the reactor for 24 hours a day-so far have been exposed to only a fraction of permissible totals. When industry goes into full-scale production and operation of reactors for civilian power needs, it will have an invaluable body of data collected from the first men to go under the sea in atomic vessels...