Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said he, "it . . . depends on you to a large extent whether in the uncertain sky of Lake Geneva a healthy wind will blow away the clouds ..." Then from the Radical Socialist benches came the voice of ambitious Economist Pierre Mendès-France, most outspoken advocate of the theory that France is "militarily overextended" and must get out of Indo-China. "We are not Americans," said he. "We cannot see the world with their eyes ... It is possible to end the disorder immediately, but it is not this government that can do it." Just Short of a Year...
According to the custom that the man most responsible for bringing down a government is given the first chance to form a new one, President Coty asked Mendès-France to try. He would have a hard time without the Communist vote, which he spurns, and without Bidault's M.R.P., which spurns him. Communists the world over may well have calculated that the fall of Laniel would produce a surrender government in France. But an unfavorable vote for Mendès-France would be a significant rebuff to Moscow...
...partial blindness, 6) bad scalp burns. Moreover, before sailing from Mombasa, Poppa had rushed off into the bush as a volunteer firefighter. There he got badly burned again but never said much about it, because by then "people would have thought I was hamming it." Now on the mend under Spain's warm spring sun, Hemingway, planning to head for his Cuban home next month, had a welcome assurance for his readers: "The doctors said the head injury did not affect the section of the brain I use to write with." In Hollywood, Entrepreneur Elliott Roosevelt announced that, after...
...Cara dies from an overdose of sedative. Shattered with grief and remorse, Julie leaves the school. Olivia is left to mend her life as best she can. The only serious fault in the picture is its failure to cut the gab at the end and leave the audience to make what it will of the situation. Instead, the last few scenes shift from one foot to another like guests who cannot bear to leave until they have hit on a clever exit line...
...Miller) who come together because he is lonely and she is hungry, and share a room pretending to be husband and wife. Theirs is no wartime idyl; the girl loathes her role and denounces the man with a full G.I. bill of wrongs. He-decent, perplexed, finally irritated-cannot mend matters...