Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cups of coffee. A more likely reason for the resignation: Markezinis was piqued because three times Papagos refused to appoint men of the Economic Minister's choosing to the Cabinet, and refused to make Markezinis Vice Premier. Athenians also guessed that the two men would soon mend their differences. "If this had happened in the army," said one, "the Old Man would merely have confined him to barracks for two weeks . . ." Sworn in as Economic Minister less than 24 hours after the resignation was none other than Spyros Markezinis' own right-hand man and close friend, Thanos Kapsalis...
This lesson learned, Nasser began one afternoon last week to mend some fences. He met with Naguib and Dr. Abdel el Sanhouri, chief of the State Council (Supreme Court). They talked earnestly until dark, then sped to the home of old Aly Maher, four times a Premier and a master of Egypt's political meteorology, to talk some more. Late that night, Aly Maher called in the press and announced that Nasser and his Revolutionary Command Council were relaxing their grip and would gradually turn Egypt toward parliamentary rule. The timetable: in June, the election...
...unwonted mildness which had characterized most of his post-presidential statements. Said he: "A lot of people here today hoped I would have something to say on political issues, but this doesn't happen to be the time ... If we , point out the Republicans' errors, they might mend their ways, and we would not have the chance to take them to task." This week, at a joint A.F.L.-C.I.O. Labor Day rally in Detroit, Harry made it clear that "give 'em hell" time was here again...
When Michelangelo heard that Pope Paul IV wanted one of his paintings changed, the master snapped: "Let him mend the world; I'll mend my paintings." As if heedful of Michelangelo's sound advice, the U.S. Government has mostly steered clear of trying to mend America's painting. Two years ago Harry Truman asked the National Commission of Fine Arts (whose usual job is to advise on statues and fountains) to see what the Government might do in the way of art patronage. After taking four volumes of testimony from federal bureaucrats, museum people and "cultural attaches...
Lord Finchley tried to mend...