Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local site of this ritual contest. While obtaining entry was difficult, diligence and my scholastic credentials were sufficient to allow me access. I say this only to illustrate the intensity of my study. If I am qualified to judge any of your impressive academic work, my approbation would fix upon the intensity of your efforts to track down the truth wherever it may lead. I hope you can appreciate my own desire to do a thorough...
...three of us were driving along Route 30 outside of Brattleboro, Vermont on our way to Newfane, reputedly the most New Englandy of the small towns scattered along the foliage route. But by that time, one of my roommates needed a sugar fix...
After engineers threw up their hands, the chancellor directed the $2.5 million the legislature appropriated to fix the bricks in 1980 used to complete two unfinished floors, repair the elevators, put a roof over the entrance to protect scholars heads and replace the chainlink fence and saw-horses, aimed at keeping students at a safe distance from the building, with shrubbery...
Once they were hippies; now they are yuppies. Twenty-five years ago, they might have prowled Bleecker Street looking for Woody Allen or Bob Dylan or a quick fix of transcendence. Now they are back in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in search of an easy key to their past. Most of the crowd filing into the Top of the Village Gate is early middle-aged, with a sprinkling of children. The occasion could be parents' night at a progressive school. Instead it is a rite of commercial nostalgia: Beehive, two hours of songs from girl singers and girl groups...
...they deny their clients were negligent. The helicopter crash was unforeseeable, said Attorney James Neal, Landis' defense counsel. Neal, a former Watergate prosecutor, will try to fix the blame on Special Effects Technician James Camomile for detonating the explosion too close to the helicopter. Says Neal: "Mr. Camomile, holding the highest powder card issued by the state, violated the first principle of his profession. He failed to view where the helicopter was." Camomile was granted immunity when he testified before a grand jury...