Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confessed that he had used drugs for a year-first marijuana on a dare from a schoolmate, then the virulent morphine derivative, heroin. The drug made him feel "high and light," and after he met a peddler named "Greasy George," he started using it regularly. To get a "fix" of heroin he had only to ask George: "Do you need a boy?" or "Have you got a thing?" For a dollar, the peddler would produce one of the capsules of white powder he kept hidden just inside the zipper of his pants. Once supplied, the boy and his friends would...
...Annex's roster of 3,000 temporary workers. All they had to do was punch in at 5:30 p.m., while away the evening hours and return to punch out again at 2 a.m. If anyone squawked, the whispered threat of a politician's name would fix...
This Winter's Events Fix the Goal and Plot the Course
...biggest gripe from businessmen came from those who had gone along with the Government's voluntary rollback in December, then found themselves frozen at lower levels than their competitors. Price Boss Mike DiSalle hoped to fix that too by a new kind of price freeze based on pre-Korea profit margins rather than specific prices. This would permit businessmen to raise prices to meet rising costs. At week's end, it looked as if the "freeze" would not keep wages & prices from going up, but merely slow the rise...
Basketball loves headlines, but last week it got a bellyful of the wrong kind. Gamblers had tried, and failed, to fix a big-time college game in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. As the fixers' trail unraveled, it led straight back to last year in the Garden, when the gamblers had tried and, it seemed, succeeded very well...