Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rayburn of Texas, Circuit Court Judge Sherman Minton of Indiana, War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt of Indiana, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri. Some Washington rumors had it that Wendell Willkie had been sounded out for the job. Sam Rosenman had joined Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, the "Big Fix" of 1940, in supporting justice Douglas, a young man (45), a Far Westerner and a liberal who would not offend too many conservatives...
...with a paring knife and hit her over the head with a whiskey bottle in the powder room of Philadelphia's Hotel Barclay. (Her attacker, onetime Soldier Socialite Sidney B. Dunn Jr., who gave as his reason, "She won't marry me and I'll fix her or kill her so she won't marry anybody else," is now serving a three-to-seven-year prison term.) Miss Clement asked $25,000 damages on the grounds that Dunn's treatment had caused "unpleasant publicity" and affected her "eligibility as a marriageable young lady...
...bulldozer driver eyed the result with disappointment and then determination. "Hell, I'll fix him," he said and swung his snorting machine around. He went around to another side of the cave and dipped his blade into the earth. This time he found soft dirt. He scooped bladeful after bladeful against the mouth of the cave until it was blocked with at least a five-foot thickness of earth. It all ended there. It was not very satisfactory because we never found out what was in the hole. Maybe some day somebody will dig into this piece of earth...
...said to him, 'Why are you so happy to be in uniform? Your country isn't so nice to your people.' Joe looked at the man and said, 'Mister, I know there are things wrong with my country, but it's nothing Hitler can fix...
...Smiling Albert" Kesselring had good reason to be serious. His quick abandonment of Rome had not helped him a bit. His Tenth and Fourteenth Armies, tumbling back over roads constantly strafed by Allied airmen, were in a desperate fix...