Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precaution-unavailable to other philandering husbands-of changing her into a heifer whenever his wife hove in sight. But Hera (Mrs. Zeus) was a shade too smart for him. One day she archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan Mountains and swam the Bosporus. She kept going over land & sea until she reached the Nile...
...feeling for what the other fellow is thinking." Translated into political terms, this means that he has an uninhibited affection for people, even strangers, and shows it when they put personal demands on his life. Right after his wedding in 1949, he overheard his bride say: "Will someone fix my jacket before I go out and face that mob?" Said the bridegroom: "Why, that's no mob out there, my dear, that's the American people." When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through the driveway of the Barkley farm, Mrs. Barkley was all for putting...
...been smoking for years. Lots of doctors. People aren't the sharpest. They don't catch on. Not even on junk. You know you don't have to stand in the middle of the living room and say, 'Pardon me, mother, while I have a fix!' Why don't people leave us alone...
...meet a guy in the paddock and he takes you aside. "Listen," he says, "I got something in the next race. It's a shoo-in, a boat race, in the tank, the fix is on. And drop a sawbuck on for me. I'll meet you here later...
What provoked the uproar was the Federal Reserve Board's decision to abolish Regulation W, the control measure which fixed minimum down payments and installments on consumer goods, e.g., one-third down on autos, with only 18 months to pay the rest. FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin had wanted to stick to the ruling despite a 6% drop in retail sales during the first 4½ months of 1952. But he was persuaded to lift it after the twelve regional chairmen warned him that, in their districts, prices were sliding, goods moving sluggishly, and inventories piling up. Now retailers...