Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night last February, Mits had a flat tire while driving his family home after visiting Grace's relatives. As he got out to fix it, another car drew up and hovered nearby. When he opened the door to get back into his car, automatically turning on the inside lights, Mits became an easy target and was shot dead. Danny, who had lived with Mits and "loved him like a brother," was immediately pulled in for questioning by the police...
...Chrysler Corp. called back 17,500 of its 1966 Dodge Polaras and Monacos to fix a throttle linkage that can stretch during sharp braking, causing the engine to idle too fast. Chrysler said the fault had caused no accidents that it knew of but it was "concerned...
While Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) was writing The Adventurers, Leon Shimkin, his publisher, took a peek at a half-finished page and asked what happened next. "I don't know," replied Robbins. "The damned typewriter broke. I'm waiting for a guy to fix it." Fixing the typewriter was Robbins' second mistake; the first was writing the book...
These techniques particularly suit plays, like The Caretaker, treating the incapacity for action. Nothing really happens in the play. An aged derelict, a beggar who preserves the fiction of being a choosier, is taken in by a young man trying to fix up an apartment building owned by his brother...
...flooded with light," says Gyorgy Kepes, M.I.T.'s professor of visual design. "We switch light on and off, send it where we will, and when we will, negate it. We project, reflect, fix, focus, chop, diffuse and scatter it. Why, then, are we not struck by the realization that the palette of a stupendous new civic art has been put in our hands...