Word: fix
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Frost has been standing people off all his life-the family who wanted him to become a lawyer, the editor who wanted him to change his style, the scientists who told him man is an accident of atoms, the theologians who told him that man is in a hopeless fix...
...live. At a mountain outpost, the government's apologetic hatchetman (Jack Hawkins), a charming, articulate villain, tells Fairbanks he will die in "a shooting accident." While he waits, Fairbanks and Writer-Director Gilliat's facile camera go back to tell how he got into such a fix...
...President had seldom been in a worse political fix. At its center was Louis Johnson, the Democratic Party's chief fund raiser in the 1948 presidential campaign, whom Mr. Truman had rewarded with the job of Secretary of Defense. But by now it was clear that to keep Johnson in the Cabinet was to risk the Democrats' political neck, perhaps even jeopardize the country's security. Mr. Truman had to do something. The general, whom he venerates, was the answer to his prayers...
...only one of the millions of American citizens who think that our country is really in a hell of a fix ... Talk about getting peace through the U.N. now sounds as unrealistic as the Crittenden Compromise* at the opening of the Civil War. Today we need a Churchill to call us to our battle stations with promises of nothing better than blood, sweat, toil and tears...
...Scholars trying to fix the date when Susruta flourished can only agree that it was between...