Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final decision to fix the date was a direct response to an array of pagan harvest festivals, and ignored the philosophical arguments offered by some Christian theologians. Most sun-worshiping early religions--including the Persian, Roman Norse, Gothic, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon--staged lavish winter solstice celebrations to mark the annual rebirth...
...lucky, the President will become a peace addict. Those who watched the applause sweep over Ronald Reagan after last week's speech on nuclear arms reduction thought they detected a new glint in his eye. He had received a needed fix. Peace is fun. Peace is box office. Peace diverts critics. Peace is good...
Despite sordid charges, a basketball-fix trial stirs little interest...
Around college basketball, "scandal" is a word from 1951 or 1961, outdated now. Sportswriter Arthur Daley, writing of the '51 fix charges involving 33 players at seven schools, observed: "All scandals are ugly, and this is a particularly vicious one because it touches the presumably untouched." Can there be any such presumption...
...better or worse clay than they ever were, even the captains of the team, the Rhodes-scholar finalists, like B.C.'s Jim Sweeney. Sweeney testified as a Government witness against Kuhn and the other defendants; he has admitted accepting money through Kuhn but denied going along with any fix. When Sweeney spoke of shamefully tacking the $500 in his closet, it recalled Ed Warner of C.C.N.Y. three decades ago, hiding the money in a shoe-box in an aunt's basement. They must have felt about the same...