Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yawl with a 9-ft. draft, through shoal waters, sailed off with first place in the 24th St. Petersburg-Havana race and a sure grip on the Southern Ocean Racing Conference-championship. "If you do not take hances," Vidana quipped, "you might as well stay home and fix the garden." ¶When The Netherlands pulled its team out of last fall's Olympic Games because of international tensions, 16-year-old Ti-neke Lageberg lost a big chance to show what she could do. Last week, wildly windmilling through the water, she clipped a whopping 11.4 seconds...
...They Can Fix. Brown's budding scientists have proved themselves useful in less exalted ways. Once when some of the school's electric clocks broke down, the local repairman turned down Brown's call for help. "We'd be glad to come out.'' he explained. "But those kids out there can fix them." The students now maintain all the school's equipment, have in stalled an intercom system and a special burglar alarm in the boys' washroom to keep young vandals from breaking the ceiling tiles. But more important than...
...Gaposchkin firmly believes that a woman can combine successfully "either professional success and a family, or professional success and an active social life." But she doubts if any woman could be a success at all three, "unless she were a millionaire. I have to go home every night and fix dinner for my family," she adds...
...would start running display ads, which are nonexistent in other satellite papers. Other Warsaw dailies scrambled to sell space, now run whole pages of bold-faced ads for free enterprisers. On one freezing day last week, a Warsaw brewery urged Zycie Warszawy readers: "If you have a cold, fix yourself a mulled beer." Urged the Polish equivalent of an Arthur Murray school: "Learn all the modern dances in time for the carnival season...
...blame for the failure is not hard to fix. It rests squarely on the script writer, who, happily for his professional reputation, was not named in the screen credits. Mayerling had a large number of cliches, even for a television play. The members of the huge cast were constantly called on to deliver such literary gems as, "Anything is possible if you really want it." And most of the situations were as trite as the lines. For instance, when the love-stricken Rudolph is supposed to be shown pursuing Maria, where do we find him? Kneeling behind her in church...