Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...standees rimmed the room by the time Dulles took the witness chair. First he read a carefully prepared statement, setting forth the high principles of the resolution. Then he pointed out the pitfalls of flatly repudiating the Yalta or Potsdam agreements of World War II, or trying to fix the blame on anybody for executing them. Next he took the questions...
...Government. Democrats-and many Republicans-read every early political bobble of the Eisenhower Administration (e.g., the failure to inform members of Congress on appointments) as a sign of civil war between Ike and Congress. But House and Senate G.O.P. leadership patiently tolerated the bobbles, and helped Ike fix his system of liaison. When Congress began warming up to a reorganization bill which the President did not like, Eisenhower-without any public cries of alarm-sent clear word on what he wanted. The G.O.P. leaders, who might have squawked about getting the word so late, quietly shifted positions. Senate Majority Leader...
...transmitters will go off the air. All AM transmitters will either be silenced or will switch their frequencies to 640 and 1240 on the dial of any standard receiver. This technical jugglery is necessary in order to prevent enemy pilots from getting a "fix" on a normal radio beam and riding down its path to drop bombs on a target city...
Cousteau describes one attack in detail: "My mind was jammed with conceited thoughts and antic joy. I struggled to fix my brain on reality, to attempt to name the color of the sea about me ... navy blue, aquamarine and Prussian blue. The debate would not resolve. The sole fact I could grasp was that there was no roof and no floor in the blue room...
...Bienvenida described the fix, the handlers cut away a few inches of horn, then disguise their work by filing and painting the mutilated tips and by shaving away hair at the base to make the horn look longer. This operation, said Bienvenida, explains much of the daring of big-name Spanish matadors in recent years...