Word: mend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a bowlful to each child under five; then, if the child does not vomit from an unaccustomed stomach, he may have another half bowlful...
Walter Reuther, 40, well on the mend from his attempted murder last April, came down with malaria...
...teachers begged and scolded, but still the windows got broken. In one year (1946), Chicago's school board paid out $271,897 just to mend windows that the schoolkids smashed. Finally, the exasperated board promised to give $22,000 worth of books to the schools with the fewest broken panes. The plan worked: last year, Chicago's broken schoolhouse panes dropped from...
...compromise. We'll do our best to mend our nefarious ways and you--you just continue to be your exemplary selves...
...first time in the history of the act it slapped down an injunction. The injunction kept the 800 workers at their jobs, forbade Carbide & Carbon from changing the conditions of the old contract. The length of the injunction: 80 days. Meanwhile the Government will look for some way to mend the first labor fission in the atomic world...