Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk drawer. Novelist Wouk was taking his first vacation in nearly a decade from the job of writing - "the loneliest job in the world." Wouk, a tall, darkly handsome man of 40, was relaxing at his ocean-front home on New York's Fire Island, trying to fix a 30-year-old reading lamp, lolling on the sand, teaching his five-year-old son how to float...
...PUBLIC. Inside the mansion, a sander went to work in the East Room, smoothing away pits and scars on the quartered-oak parquet floor. By week's end the floor was ready for filling and waxing. This week a crew of maintenance men will move in to fix the floors, touch up the paneling in the State Dining Room, and dry-clean the soiled draperies and damask wall coverings in the Red, Green and Blue Rooms. By Sept. 30, the old mansion will be gleaming again...
...could not shake it off that easily: a few days later it turned up at his piano-repair shop. A music-loving plasterer had found it and handed Carmi an advance with orders to fix the instrument. Later, the plasterer changed his mind and demanded his money back. He demanded it vehemently. He pounded his fist on the piano. As he did so, the plaster casing cracked and the head and torso of a little wooden cherub came into view...
...Eisenhower," he said, "believes that he has found another kind of peace-peace of mutual forbearance, in which each nation pursues its own aims in every way short of armed conflict." Such a peace, prophesied Rhee, will lead to disaster because 1) "it gives the Communists the chance ... to fix their grip permanently on conquered areas," and 2) "the Communists themselves will not abide...
...Roof, will be fixed up by Studio Boss Dore Schary. Schary's fix: the relationship of the younger brother to a homosexual football captain will be changed to simple hero worship...