Word: mend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of steel, Detroit's automakers were forced to lay off 37,000 more workers this week. But except for strike-born dislocations, the U.S. seemed on the mend from the recession. Employment had picked up so much that U.S. officials removed five areas from their "critical" list of places with high unemployment...
...Reds slyly used the Episcopate's concession to discredit the church. President Gottwald freed 127 priests (jailed as hostages for their opposition to the government's new church laws), because they had "promised to mend their ways." A state court judge told the released priests: "I beg you to consider the significance and implied pledge of this magnanimous...
...petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...
Veteran fullback Mike Scully will make his season debut, having sat out last week's game to allow his pre-season practice injury an extra week to mend. Scully's appearance at fullback will send Dick Harrop back to his natural position of halfback...
...possible surprise Crimson starter will be Myles Huntington, last year's regular second baseman, who was injured in the third Dartmouth hockey game and spent the early part of the baseball season waiting for a broken shoulder to mend...