Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone from their high school coach to the lowest substitute on their team for their success, Geary O'Leary, a Holy Cross halfback, received the Senior Achievement Award, given to the New England player who shows the most "courage and determination." After breaking that three operations were required to mend it, O'Leary came back to play football again this year only to break the leg again...
...very little concern over this offense," said a 1951 probation report. "For the past couple of years he led a wild life -spent most of his money on drinking parties and women. His mother appears to be a type that has overprotected her son." Yet Jack Graham seemed to mend his ways. Three years ago he married Gloria Elson, a Denver girl, and settled down to raise a family. Last year, when her third husband died, Daisie King bought the Crown-A, a drive-in hamburger stand in West Denver, for $35,000, put Jack in charge (he also...
...second time in ten days, Premier Faure last week risked the life of his government on a vote of confidence over the issue of new Assembly elections in December. His principal opponent was his predecessor, party leader and onetime friend, Pierre Mendès-France. Faure's objective, with the help of the Assembly's right wing, was to force elections before
...Mendès had a chance to organize a coalition of the Left. Mendès' strategy was to seek modifications of France's complex electoral law, hoping to stall elections until spring and eventually go to the voters under a system favorable to his own candidates...
...opposition did likewise. Ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez, making his first appearance since he suffered a stroke in 1950, limped in on a cane to cast a vote against Faure. But the dominant fact of the present Assembly is that it fears a return to power by Pierre Mendès-France more than it dislikes Edgar Faure. By threatening the Gaullists with loss of all right-wing support in the next elections, Faure's backers pressured a dozen or so Gaullist deputies into abstaining rather than voting against him. When the ballots were counted, the government squeaked through...