Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couples who did not plan to apply for quarters cited high rent, "dormitory atmosphere," a desire for "a place of our own, one we can fix up," and aesthetic considerations...
...nice if you can afford it. But Willy and I won't live there. We spend all of our time around this University, and when we're together we don't want to be living on top of a thousand other students. We're going to find and fix up an inexpensive place...
Most cities in a similar fix would have settled for moving their costly harbor works, but Duisburg found an ingenious way out. Under the city-harbor and all-lie three rich seams of coal. Engineers figured that if this coal was extracted properly, the ground above would settle evenly, and the whole harbor region could be lowered by as much as 7.5 ft., permitting the lowered Rhine to fill the harbor once more. There was $150 million worth of coal below the city, and it could be sold to pay for most of the surface damage caused by the settling...
...also created a few problems that never existed before, of course, but Tex Thornton and Litton Industries are confident that man will be able to solve them. Recently, for example, the automatic garbage-disposal unit in Thornton's home broke down. He called a repairman to fix the intricate device, but the man had no success. So Thornton did the job himself in a Thornton-like way. He gave the problem some thought, then simply got an empty Coke bottle and dropped it smack into the maw of the machine, which came to life immediately and chewed the bottle...
This time Metalious has foxed rumormongers by creating a cast of characters that couldn't be anybody. She traces the roots of their wretchedness to a neighborhood of Quebec that could have been invented only by a writer eager to fix Canada's wagon for banning Peyton Place. Her point seems to be that frigidity leads to murder and murder leads to sloth, drunkenness and terrible profanity. In three generations of women, only one survives to appreciate the wonders of conjugal love. Looking back on the murderous folly of her mother and granny, the heroine exclaims with...