Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief motive in seeing the President was to tell [him] that food commodity prices were too high, and that he should ask the special session of Congress to fix a price on wheat based on parity. I told him that, if this were not done . . . wheat could be priceless before another crop was delivered to market. I explained the fact to him and to reporters . . . that I knew only one neutral man in the U.S., and he is Uncle Sam. The Government is the only source of control which can establish a price fair to me, as a producer...
...wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help them...
...move to control the middle class is a new Communist-dominated commission to fix taxes for townspeople. A citizen's rate of tax is in inverse ratio to his rate of cooperation...
...years thereafter, Yoder was "mited." He was a social outcast. No Amish cobbler would fix his shoes. Even his brother Dan could not eat with him. When he was out threshing, he had to take his meals in barns or cellars-alone. Said he: "It was like feeding the dog out of a dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs...
Navigator Addison Thompson had decided to catch up on his sleep. The weather was too bad for star shots, and he had never thought of a radio fix. He slept for about eight hours. When he woke, he found the second flight engineer curled up cozily under his navigation table and the Sky Queen past the point of no-return...