Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chosen to make it so. We have responded immediately, with our Western Allies, by reinforcing our garrisons in that beleaguered city. We have called up some 150,000 reservists, increased our draft calls and extended the service of many who are in uniform. These are the so-called quick-fix measures which we have invoked to improve the Western tactical position in Berlin and remind the Soviets that the city is not an open invitation to that variety of aggression which has been described as the salami, or one-slice-at-a-time, method...
...hibernating over Ph.D. generals, says he will begin revising the script "as soon as the orals are over next week and I get a night's sleep." In its present form, the show runs only 100 minutes. "We're going to add five musical numbers, choreography, and fix up the second act to bring out the full satire," he reported...
...Merriam-Webster, even ain't is "used orally in most parts of the U.S. by many cultivated speakers." Nor could the editors fail to dig cool cats who make stacked chicks flip. Without drips and pads and junkies, who bug victims for bread to buy horse for a fix, the dictionary of 1961 would not be finalized...
From his wood-paneled suite high above Manhattan, Hammarskjold had operated his international civil service (5,000 employees in scores of countries) with quiet efficiency. He could fix a diplomat's parking ticket with the New York police, arrange the cleaning of the 5,400 windows at U.N. headquarters, send food to famine areas, or mediate a Middle East war threat with the same dispassionate precision. But in a rare lapse, as he left for the Congo fortnight ago, Hammarskjold had failed to designate an Acting Secretary-General to run the shop in his absence...
...each part of a sculpture should balance and play against the others. The Dwarf is not just a bittersweet sculpture of a sadly deformed human being: the strings of the cat's cradle start the viewer's eye on its voyage; the great hands and arms fix the circumference of the block, which is thus both open and closed at the same time. In Aaron, which is 8 ft. high, the shafts around the tepee-like tabernacle are balanced and continued by the symbols of the tribes of Israel that grow weedlike out of Aaron's back...