Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Post Mortem. In Hamden, Conn., cops arrested Edward Bratkewitz, 21, for sending a hearse to his girl friend's house after she refused to mend their broken romance...
Professor McKay said the Sunday travel supplements of newspapers remind him "of the one-sided nature of a society which sends its business leaders--not to speak of university administrators, reluctantly heeding the winter call of Florida alumni--to mend their nerves on Florida beaches while we professors inhale each other's germs in the fetid air of Widener Library...
Carl G. Strandlund, inventor of the Lustron prefabricated house and one of the most unsuccessful big businessmen in the nation, did little to mend matters. He claimed angrily that RFC Director Walter L. Dunham of Detroit (who said he had a heart condition which would permit his appearing privately, but would kick up if he talked in public) had participated with Young and others in a scheme to seize control of the Lustron Corp. Dunham, said Strandlund, put on pressure to make him sell 60,000 of his shares of Lustron stock "without compensation." Strandlund said he refused, and that...
...Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, after a near-fatal bout with a heart attack, H. L. Mencken was off the critical list and on the mend again, upsetting his doctors' predictions and confusing the nurses with orders for solid food and attention. His first demand...
...cabinet of Premier René Pleven. Yet debate over Indo-China at Paris was bitter. Rightist Deputy Edmond Michelet assailed "successive governments" for "an incoherent policy ... As late as Oct. 7 we were told that the Viet Minh forces could not launch a general offensive." Radical Deputy Pierre Mendès-France warned: "If we want to win the war ... we will have to triple our military forces and . . . our military budget. We must choose between the rearmament of Europe and the war in Indo-China...