Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wolf of Man." U Nu is a man of rough and unfamiliar plainness. His head is round, his mouth seems rather large for his face, and his brown eyes fix visitors with peculiar intentness. His manner is sedate; his piety is apparent, and sincere. He betrays no concern that a Rangoon magazine is currently serializing a novel called Man the Wolf of Man (written in 1943) with a remarkable autobiographical preface by its author...
...postwar decade the do-it-yourself craze has become a national phenomenon. The once indispensable handyman who could fix a chair, hang a door or patch a concrete walk has been replaced by millions of amateur hobbyists who do all his work-and much more-in their spare time and find it wonderful fun. In the process they have turned do-it-yourself into the biggest of all U.S. hobbies and a booming $6 billion-a-year business. The hobbyists, who trudge out of stores with boards balanced on their shoulders, have also added a new phrase to retail jargon...
...much of its start from the war itself. During their service years, millions of Americans learned for the first time how to repair radios, engines and dozens of other machines. Housewives who had been punch-press operators, welders and electronics technicians found that it was no trick to fix a leaky faucet or paper a room, especially as it was hard to hire anyone to do it. Doing it herself was also less expensive, since the wages of carpenters and plumbers had jumped far higher than those of many other workers. Says one do-it-yourselfer: "A $1.25-an-hour...
...fiscal year, thus allowing for seasonal peaks; 3) redefine the type of debt subject to the ceiling; 4) take tax-anticipation certificates out from under the ceiling. But the Secretary of the Treasury was insisting on one basic point: the Senators will have to fix the ceiling, one way or another, before they go home...
...office, but who had backed an opponent of Albert Patterson, set out to investigate the murder. As his investigation got under way, he was brought before the vote fraud grand jury, grilled for 10½ hours. Eventually the jury indicted him and two other politicians for attempting to fix the primary in which the late Lawyer Patterson was nominated...