Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CUBA "To Fix This Country...
...more than Cuba's total arable land); the peasants must plant what the government tells them, meet government production goals, and they may not sell the land. "We haven't taken over this government to play games," said Castro testily. "We've come to fix this country...
...landscape swarming with Austrian soldiers and two-faced informers, handsome Angelo performs one brilliant, noble deed after another, soon wins himself a cheering public. Even before his stature has become "heroic," his bosses maneuver a neat fix: Angelo must be killed and enshrined as a national martyr. Instead, in a duel, innocent Angelo spits his enemy through the gizzard and continues to thrive. His bosses keep on hoping, when he is ordered to blow up an Austrian powder store and burn the fodder of the enemy cavalry. Instead of perishing superbly in the attempt, Angelo just does the job very...
...difficult to fix a minimum budget for someone else to live on," Toepfer wrote recently in the Law School's Alumni Bulletin. "Difficulties arise from the hundreds of students with an endless variety of backgrounds, family situations, and personal requirements...
...Proper procedure: move forward, throw out anchor or a bucket with a line on it for a sea anchor. Put on a life preserver. Fix the engine...