Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartments converted into speakeasies, tired Delhi businessmen sipped beer at 10 rupees ($2) a bottle. In Connaught Circus, the heart of town, young spivs sold paper bags containing liquor, soda and ice. A man walking along with a bicycle tire over his shoulder might be on his way to fix a flat, but it was just as likely he was en route to a customer thirsty enough not to mind the rubbery taste of an inner tube...
Originally filed as a criminal action by the Truman Administration in 1952, the suit charged the five with conspiring with Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. and British Petroleum Co. Ltd. to fix free-world oil prices and control world oil production. The Eisenhower Administration toned down the suit to a civil one in 1953, and the Justice Department spent seven years re-examining the merits of its case, which even the trustbusters knew was none too strong. Last week two of the defendants, Jersey Standard and Gulf, while not admitting any guilt, signed consent decrees promising not to enter into...
...truly in a sorry fix 'Twixt Kennedy and Dickie Nix. So, faced by this selection shoddy, Write in your choice and vote "Nobody...
...tell us about yourself. We're interested in finding out about the kids in the neighborhood, especially those who have been in trouble.... You can quit anytime if you want to, and if you don't like any of the work just tell us and we'll try to fix it up." Often several contacts were necessary before the delinquent ever showed up at the laboratory, but in each case the program was eventually successful in getting attendance. Slack notes, "The first hours were filled with bravado and hostility. But gradually they became dependent on the job and the kindness...
...bartenders for diplomats but not baby sitters or liquor. Long Island's Allied lists some 250 regular chores-plus 150 special services, such as entertaining at parties. One of the cheeriest jobs was performed by a tree surgeon for Chicago's National Home Owners Club. Called to "fix a tree," he was confronted with a 14-ft. Christmas tree that needed decorating. He did a glad...