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...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...
...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...
...scarce. Then the boys and girls went to school and the women had to go out and queue up for fish, if they could find some fish, and other foods. This took several hours, then they went home to make dinner, mostly potatoes. There are a hundred ways to fix potatoes. We had meat, usually half veal and half horse, once every four months...
Like Mother's. Same con game: two U.S. soldiers showed up at a farmhouse, carrying a dead, half-plucked chicken, told the sympathetic farm wife that it was a long time since they had had chicken "like mother used to fix." She cooked the chicken for them, served it on her best china and linen with vegetables, cake and precious butter of her own. After the boys had uttered their profuse thanks and departed, she found that the chicken had been taken from her own henhouse...
...year-old president of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Bowman, whose books, map-making and fact-finding expeditions (notably in South America) made him a front-rank political geographer-as opposed to geopolitical writers-was a ranking adviser of Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, there helped fix European boundaries. A reporter asked if Dr. Bowman's presence meant that boundaries were to be discussed in London. Replied the President: they might discuss bananas, and Dr. Bowman knows where bananas grow...