Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot repair the leaks yet because "it's too cold to get up there and fix them now," Marciano said. During warm weather last week, B&G teams were able to repair several entryways, but students said many leaks still remain...
...food costs ... by producing much of what they eat." We farm and raise corn and soybeans. We have a small garden, but we do not raise beef, pork, eggs, chickens, wheat or coffee. If we ate only what we produced on our farm, we would be in a bad fix...
...furniture. Sometimes that is enough. One Massachusetts judge, hearing a suit protesting pris on conditions, took state authorities on a tour of the prison and asked: "You're sure you really want to defend this case?" The state did not, and (wisely) accepted a consent decree to fix the place up. More often, the state does nothing, and the judge will call in the parties to work out a solution...
Upstairs, Downstairs is not high drama, and it may not even be drama at all. It is soap opera, the most exalted soap opera ever to be shown on TV. For the addicted there is still one final fix. The syndicators are holding back five additional early episodes, which were shot in black and white. They will be released if this series is a success. Can there be any doubt...
...prophetic magic were invented before the wheel. Today, entrails are about the only thing not widely sifted for inklings of things to be. The soothsaying fraternity conjures all year long to supply the public addiction. The orgiastic bumper crop comes as a sort of special start-of-the-year fix. One effect of the overdose is that it makes everyone momentarily forget that public dependence on prognosticating is not just seasonal but chronic...