Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole experience was so frustrating, so painful that even today Robert Lindsey, 46, cannot talk about his trouble calmly. "Five months ago," says Lindsey, who works as a short-order cook on Los Angeles' industrial East Side, "I called a repairman to fix my 21-in. TV set." The repairman took one look and said the tuner was broken, a minor matter of $20 or $25. He produced a blank "authorization" for repairs for Lindsey to sign. "So I signed...
...tracking camera uses an ultra fast f 1 lens with a 22-inch aperture. The image is photographed on a strip of 55 mm. CinemaScope film about one foot long. The camera can fix the satellite within one or two seconds of arc in space and within one thousandth of a second in time...
...depths to which military discipline has fallen. The fact of the matter is-Wheeler refused to obey a lawful order given him by a superior. If every soldier, sailor, marine or airman suddenly decided to disobey an order, the U.S. would be in a hell of a fix. The people of this country have a choice: A disciplined, effective military establishment or a rabble consisting of graduated juvenile delinquents, with Elvis Presley haircuts...
...what the relationship is between nutrition, particularly the fat content of the diet, and atherosclerosis." Therefore it did not recommend "drastic dietary changes, specifically in the quantity or type of fat in the diet of the general population." Instead, the committee pleaded for prompt, thorough and uncompromising research to fix the facts. But it made a notable concession to the foes of fats, and especially saturated fats, by conceding that in any well-balanced diet for general good health, the fat content should be sufficient only to help meet the body's demands for essential fatty acids (found...
...wrist from the House Committee on Government Operations investigating the vaccine situation. Charged a committee report: PHS was guilty of "unimaginative leadership" and lack of effectiveness in last year's polio-vaccination program and paid too much for vaccine-possibly because the manufacturers had got together to fix prices, a matter now under grand-jury investigation...