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...barn on four acres, and have a cash income from public welfare of $150 a month. "We have lived here for 50 years," said Mrs. Cutler. "We like it. I want to stay here until the good Lord takes me away. But I do wish that Mrs. Johnson would fix the roof. This old house leaks...
...Radcliffe's increasingly close connection with the University, but some important things have gotten lost. Someday, she hopes, there will be many more "things to do" at the Quad; everything from a large swimming pool, squash courts, and music and art work areas, to a shop where girls can fix their bicycles...
...voice for it; also he considers it an all but unplayable part. He imagines Shakespeare having a drink with the great actor Richard Burbage and becoming fed to the teeth with Burbage's bragging that he could play any role at all. "I'll fix you," says Olivier's Shakespeare, who goes home to write Othello...
...bodily harm caused by the Mardi Gras festivities. Luck and nerve as well as experience are important, but Continental generally shuns such risks as traveling carnivals, stunt pilots and amateur parachutists. "We don't make snap decisions," says McKerrow. "We sit here for hours and discuss how to fix a rate, how to determine the hazards, and what our competitors might do in the same situation." The surge in high-risk insurance stems from many factors, nearly all of them connected with the pace of modern living. Faster air travel, more complicated machines and greater mobility have made Americans...
...confinement of sea life makes people fix upon subjects with intensity, if only to keep sane. You meet men with the most immense knowledge of the Bible, say, or of internal combustion engines. You remember them for the sharpness of their mental edges; always, you remember them...