Word: mend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roger Wach's strained leg muscle is on the mend and he will probably be ready for Army. If not, Shapiro or Bob Abboud, who took Wach's place at Columbia, will handle the 136-pound duties. Bob Claffin is a reliable 175-pounder and heavyweight Howle Houston is picking up more and more wrestling know-how to go along with his tremendous strength and cat-like reflexes. He should be able to hold his own against the rest of the heavyweight opposition...
...display both energy and imagination in the four lean years ahead, then 1952 can in fact be the year of liberation from the selfish and unprincipled mediocrity of the present democratic rule. We lost in 1948 because we deserved nothing more than defeat. Now we have four years to mend our ways, to support new leaders and a new program of an articulate and creative party of enlightened twentieth century conservatism
...leaning heavily on references to the medical profession, with more & more emphasis on throat irritation. Huffed the Journal: "It would be difficult indeed to differentiate between the irritation caused by the smoking of cigarettes and that caused by various bacteria, chemicals or heat." If the cigarette companies do not mend their talk, it hinted darkly, the Government might crack down...
Deatherage, whose outfit would have had a hard time breaking up a Sunday School picnic, was merely exhorted to mend his ways, and sent home. As for larger game, Dies explained that if he treated Father Coughlin or Reverend Gerald Smith harshly, he might be accused of being anti-religious. When Representative Dickstein demanded angrily why the committee didn't investigate the America First group, Dies remarked blandly that he had no evidence that the Firsters were engaged in subversive activities...
Phumiphon Aduldet, 20, King of Siam, who is going to school in Switzerland had a narrow squeak. The young Possessor of the Four-&-Twenty Golden Umbrellas* ran his Fiat smack into a truck. Out of the hospital a few days later with his cuts and bruises well on the mend, he would not know for some time whether he had permanently lost the sight of his right...