Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This fact is not surprising. A century of history records the changes in institutions: it does not fix their mold. And this was a century of shattering change . . . Over such a span of time, the only perfectly consistent institution was a dead institution. And the Republican Party was-and is-very much alive ... It helped mold each age and was itself molded by each age-the extremist party in one day, 'the champion of something called 'normalcy' in another...
...testing the 30-odd ingredients of a perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while...
...would like a long vacation Your reservation I'll quickly fix-You'll simply love my old plantation Way down upon the River Styx...
Special Service. During the 1948 campaign, as Mayock told it last week, he promised to raise $30,000 for the pinched Democratic Party purse. His method of doing so was to get a tax case fixed. A client of his named Louis Markus knew an insurance broker named William Solomon, and Solomon knew a prosperous New York chemical manufacturer named William S. Lasdon, who had a tax problem with an estimated $1,500,000 at stake. Expensive lawyers, including a former assistant commissioner of internal revenue, had been unable to get anything done at the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Through...
...doctors told him that his case was "virtually hopeless." He told Mrs. Taft that he might have a malignancy but belittled the extent of it, and thereupon began a careful masquerade, playing the part of a man who had nothing wrong with him that the doctors couldn't fix...