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Word: fixes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only one of the millions of American citizens who think that our country is really in a hell of a fix ... Talk about getting peace through the U.N. now sounds as unrealistic as the Crittenden Compromise* at the opening of the Civil War. Today we need a Churchill to call us to our battle stations with promises of nothing better than blood, sweat, toil and tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...used by drug addicts to a great extent during the World War II scarcity of narcotics ... [a nemmie] helped them to smooth out the rough edges when the yen (from yen-shee, the scrapings of the inside of an opium pipe) for a "fix" or shot became strong. By "goofing off or going on the nod they entered a state ranging from mild intoxication to complete unconsciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...Scholars trying to fix the date when Susruta flourished can only agree that it was between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Finger for en Eye | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...going to fix bayonets and charge. Fire and keep firing. We've been after these guys a long time. This is our chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: A Question of Tomatoes | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...class. Whatever she had, when tragedy strikes your family again . . . you're going to want the same job as your dear grandmother got. But it can't be done . . . You'll have to have the wood; won't be any more steel. Sure, we can fix up the inside a little extra-more plush and all-but folks like the outside to have class, and class costs, these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Where's the Eye Appeal? | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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