Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhine had more PK, he might be able to compel others to think as he does. Or if he had more precognition, he might not be in the fix that he says...
Around the semicircle of Rhine's audience there was evident disbelief. The professor, who has spent 26 of his 58 years studying just such phenomena, shook his shock of greying hair and shrugged. "You see what a fix I'm in?" he asked. "Here you have a line of incredibility, and I'm just beyond it. That's why this work is so interesting." Then he added: "I don't know that I believe it myself...
...group of prominent businessmen last summer thought of a fine birthday present for President Eisenhower: they wanted to fix over a room in his Gettysburg farmhouse and fill it with Pennsylvania Dutch antiques. But when the group presented the idea to Mamie, she promptly vetoed it. The President, said she, already owned "too many things." Why not set up a scholarship in his name...
Last year he introduced a tough anti-cartel bill to prohibit associations formed to fix prices, but the bill was lobbied out of the Bundestag. Erhard, who is expected to introduce another bill soon, said last week that he would get even tougher in the future...
...South Shields. With only an ancient cat named Dimpy for company, he settled down to a life of solitude punctuated only by occasional memories of the wife he had loved and the son he had lost. Then, one day this month. Fred was called in by a neighbor to fix a broken windowpane. Over the inevitable cup of tea, the lonely man, now 77, told his story. "Why, that's funny." said another neighbor who had dropped in. "I heard almost the same story from a bus conductor right here in town, and his name is Jaques...