Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that everything was "under control" and asked for more money. Again, said Shapiro, he called Delaney, and Delaney told him to pay, that everything was O.K. "I made out the check for $5,000," Shapiro told the jury, "and here I am." In two years thereafter, said Shapiro, the fix worked so well that no one from the collector's office ever had tried to collect his taxes...
...urbane Friedman, called to the witness stand, readily confirmed Shapiro's story. He had sold his services to a number of Boston firms. All his success as a fixer, he claimed, he owed to his friend, Denis Delaney. What had become of the fix money? He and Delaney had split it between them...
...jockey agent (William Holden), tarnished and down on his luck, and a runaway rich boy (Johnny Stewart) who wants desperately to be a winning jockey; of the race track's poverty-row "characters" who chip in to buy a potential champion; of the crooked gamblers whose attempt to fix the big race through Holden conflicts at the last moment with his fatherly affection...
Washington-which had been up to its eyes in the truce talks since November-was beginning to see that the inspection business was not workable. It seemed clear that, no matter what they agreed to at the conference table, the Reds would fix up their blasted North Korean airstrips and build new ones as soon as they had the chance...
...telegrapher, Norris had a brash air about him, a funny story for every occasion and a firm belief in the Southern's slogan: "Look ahead-look South!" But the Southern needed more than humanizing; it was deep in debt and losing money fast. Norris decided to fix that...