Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...social questions could be handily submitted to farmyard logic. Just because of this, many latter-day critics who set the fashions regarded him slightingly-as a kind of James Whitcomb Riley with muscles. Intellectuals today tend to look on the age of anxiety as an urban affair, a unique fix man has just now got himself into. Frost's genial parsing of the components of the world in terms of bears and blueberrying, they feel, just won't do. Yet they are aware of another Frost, the Frost of that small, chilling masterpiece called Design, which offers...
Frost believed that the fix man finds himself in, whatever it is, is not something new, or something to whine about, or something that is likely to change...
...Lions, Alex Karras, 27, was worried about those rumors that pro football players had been "shaving points" and associating with hoodlums. Alex decided to clear the air, and, fortified with indiscretion, taped a TV interview for NBC. He was sure that no pro football player would ever try to fix a game. But, personally, he enjoyed a little wager now and then. Doesn't everybody? Then N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle pointed out that all player contracts specifically forbid betting on league games. Facing a possible suspension, Karras sobbed that it was all a dreadful mistake. "I've never...
...government armored cars repeatedly attacked the entrenched Viet Cong positions at the tree line and along a canal bordering the paddies; each time they were driven back. Overhead, government planes pounded the Viet Cong with bombs and napalm, but the Communists did not break. "My God, we got a fix on one machine-gun position and made 15 aerial runs on it," said a U.S. adviser. "Every time we thought we had him, and every time that damned gunner came right back up, firing...
...loner who hates the spit and polish of the Navy and the "game" of putting on a front for the Chinese. He tries to secede from the ship by taking refuge in caring for the one thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons-he puts the whole ship in an uproar. The Chinese are not supposed to grasp theory. Engine work is coolie labor. The intricate fabric of protective illusion cannot bear...