Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vicar son of a bitch render out with magnificat," cries Ebbe Borregaard, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the wittiest of them, writes of a "wiggy prophet . . . gentle as the lamb of God/made into mad cutlets." Many action poets describe "religious visions" induced by narcotics; conversely, one poet speaks of "getting a fix at the altar." Even more important than religion to most action poets is sex, but more important than either is excrement. Excrement is sacrament. They sprinkle it around like holy water, they spread it like the Gospel truth...
...which he is clearly unable to act immediately, it is that suggestions of scandal allow too many people to play the heroic investigator. Nothing delights congressmen seeking reelection more than the prospect of uncovering corruption in the executive branch. The stockpile question is a tricky one, and efforts to fix the blame for it on specific administrators are unlikely to answer it effectively...
...village, where the road cuts across a field, the drainage pipe was placed too high. Thus one side of the road is drowned while the other is parched, ruining 24 acres of the village's skimpy fields. The peasants are certain that the Americans would fix the pipe if they knew about it. But how does a peasant reach the Americans? Who would listen...
Clinging Twilight. The basic navigation tool is still the time-honored sextant, with which a navigator shoots the stars (or planets, sun or moon) to fix his plane's position above the surface of the spinning earth. Sextants have been vastly improved since the days of sailing ships, and a competent navigator can make a fix that is accurate to within ten miles. If weather permits, he takes about five fixes during a transatlantic crossing...
...Long-Range Navigation) can give a navigator an accurate, medium-range fix. But despite the promise of its name, LORAN does not reach dependably to the middle of the Atlantic, and strong "atmospherics" (static) can put it out of action...