Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exceptions. Guido Mattei, Chicago manager of the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, says: "Sneak thieves do a thorough job of hitting downtown office buildings, and we have found that a good 40% of these prowlers are narcotics addicts. Office thievery is the source of their next fix...
Shenker finds his two children have adjusted more quickly to the Moscow life than he. Early this month Daughter Susan, 12, and Son Mark, 9, flew off to Copenhagen and summer camp. When they found out they were to fly by Soviet Aeroflot jet, they asked their mother to fix peanut-butter sandwiches. Explained Susan: "You can't expect us to eat caviar all the way to Copenhagen...
...author is not without a sense of humor. At one point he defines the "Four F's of Fighting" as "FIND 'EM, FIX 'EM, FIGHT 'EM, and FINISH 'EM!" The sly absence of the obvious "Fifth F" is highly amusing...
...Warning. The long debate served to fix government responsibility, or the lack of it, and illustrated the odd nature of the British security system, compounded of shrewdness, inefficiency, and an often misguided sense of sportsmanship that goes to extraordinary lengths in protecting members of the club. The case, as it emerged from the debate, falls into four phases...
...Charade. What happened was a charade. It went off with such precision, such inevitability, that some observers, aware of Bobby Kennedy's propensity for manipulation, suspected a fix. The Justice Department vehemently denied any deal with Wallace, but there was at least an unspoken arrangement. Both sides knew that the Negroes would eventually be enrolled in the university. The feds were willing to let Wallace put up his farcical show-for a while. Wallace wanted to avoid a long stretch in jail-and the Administration, bent on stirring up as little political resentment as possible in the South, desperately...