Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of a Cleveland vice trial, the lawyer for three defendants accused of pandering asked the judge to put newsmen and spectators out of the courtroom to ensure privacy. Said Cleveland Common Pleas Judge Parker Fulton: "We don't want to get into, the fix they did in the Jelke case. In that case, the judge on his own motion sent spectators out. I wouldn't do that." Instead of ordering newsmen out, Judge Fulton asked the defendants first to formally waive their constitutional right to a public trial. Only then did the judge order press and spectators...
...good deal longer than he thought. For nine years, balanced precariously in a chair with only three legs, he worked at his word lists in the garret of his Gough Square house. At first he had a lofty ambition: not only to rid the language of impurities, but to fix it permanently. "Our language," he wrote. "for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal...
There is a possibility that the quota will increase still further in future years. Another proposal before the Faculty's May meeting would allow the Committee on History and Literature and the Committee on Educational Policy to fix the limit each year without specific Faculty approval...
...necromancer's divining board. Moran did find what he believes to be the key. It was not from the signs of the solar zodiac that he got it; it was from the 28 signs of the Luna (i.e., moon) zodiac, which were invented long before "to fix the calendar and to determine the times of planting and seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort of shorthand which grew, in spite of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, into...
...still the big family household-including servants, "companions." nurseries, long corridors, enormous rooms. But her characters are no more untrue to life for this than Oedipus would be for driving around in an automobile instead of a chariot. In Mother & Son, middle-aged Rosebery is in just the same fix as Oedipus: he cannot escape from life with mother. Aged Miranda is seeking to hire a companion because she thinks it is time for her elderly son to stop following her around. But the Fates know that neither mother nor son has any intention of separating. For 20-odd years...