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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...
...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...
...used by drug addicts to a great extent during the World War II scarcity of narcotics ... [a nemmie] helped them to smooth out the rough edges when the yen (from yen-shee, the scrapings of the inside of an opium pipe) for a "fix" or shot became strong. By "goofing off or going on the nod they entered a state ranging from mild intoxication to complete unconsciousness...
...Scholars trying to fix the date when Susruta flourished can only agree that it was between...