Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...created a crisis every week, turned against his backers, made himself dictator and got booted out by the army. He showed a sure sense for the common touch. Once, tearing his trousers climbing into the rickety presidential limousine, he rejected the idea of getting another car, saying: "We will mend the pants, repair the car, and build a school with the cost of a new car." He was wildly erratic: when a minor official complained about a cabinet minister, Velasco fired the minister on the spot and gave the job to the complainer. "Ecuador," Velasco concluded, "is a very difficult...
...wife of a conscientious doctor, I, too, am shocked by the practices revealed in your article. While hoping that "the guilty doctors will mend their ways," and checking on them as if they were little boys with jam on their faces, can the California Medical...
...Senator Lyndon Johnson's Preparedness ("Watchdog") subcommittee got curious. Army Secretary Frank Pace also got busy. Last week he notified Senator Johnson that he had relieved Colonel Derby, that efforts would be made to recover any money "improperly spent"; and that Atlas Constructors had been ordered to mend their ways...
...mend after a hernia operation in a New Orleans hospital, veteran Cinemactor Gary Cooper had plans involving his old friend and hunting companion Ernest Hemingway: "We've been talking about several stories for possible use in the future. He looks fine when he shaves. He lives pretty sanely...
...canvassed a large group of patients, and all too often found the whispers justified. Now, in any case where gouging is suspected, the doctor's bill is audited before he gets paid. The trustees hope that, now that the racket has been exposed, the guilty doctors will mend their ways. C.P.S. would prefer not to sue them, but if it has to, it will...