Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left-wing pamphleteer, Irwin Edelman of Los Angeles. Technically hired as counsel by Edelman who claimed legal status as "next friend" of the Rosenbergs, the two lawyers developed a special argument. Its gist: the Rosenbergs were wrongly sentenced under the Espionage Act of 1917, which allows the judge to fix the death penalty; they should have been sentenced under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which provides the death penalty for atomic espionage only when a jury so recommends...
...their first visit to the U.S. But once back in Russia, when the cold war began, Gilmore's wife and child were no longer allowed out. Two of the three other correspondents in Moscow who work for the U.S. press had married Russians and were in the same fix. Despite repeated requests for exit visas for their wives and children, they were always turned down, became virtual prisoners inside Russia's borders...
...does not believe in God must fear the Devil." But though authorities shake their heads at witch talk, they shrug their shoulders over what to do about it and point to the case of Farmer Bading of Lüneberg Heath. Hannes Bading called in a witch doctor to fix up his ailing stock, his failing crops, his drying well. The Hexenmeister sold him some "letters from heaven" and warned him against witches and spirits who might show up disguised as friendly neighbors...
...that cervical secretions are hostile to spermatozoa. This can be established by a simple smear test. If the secretion is normally receptive, it dries in a marked, fernlike pattern; if it is hostile, the pattern is different or absent. And in such cases, doses of a female hormone may fix things...
Boomerang. In Woonsocket, R.I., after ordering city police to enforce a strict no-fix'' policy on motor-vehicle viola tions. Mayor Kevin Coleman learned who had received parking tickets as a result...