Word: mend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mozart wanted even his darkest operas to end with the characters reconciled and order restored, and so he followed the fiery disappearance of Don Giovanni with a cheery little sextet in which the survivors tell everyone to mend his ways. Sellars' contemporary sensibility seems unable to accept such a stylized ending, and so he attributes the sextet not to the survivors of the disaster but to the suffering ghosts of those same survivors...
...week-old fetus. So far, the results have been remarkable. Though he has been confined since birth to a germ-free flexible plastic bubble in order to protect him from the outside world, David, now seven months old, appears to have an immune system that is on the mend. If all goes well, David could leave his sterile prison by summer's end. Though his survival is not assured, the experiment could help researchers develop ways to correct other inherited, and congenital, disorders through the transplantation of fetal cells...
...issue is an important step toward learning how well a broken human bone might mend during long flights aboard a space station or on a trip to Mars...
...than 20 years here after a badly planned bank job in Northfield, Minn. Coleman, the eldest, became prison librarian and printer's devil at the newspaper. In his second year Cole was named Mirror editor, and the paper's motto became -- and remains -- "It's never too late to mend...
...regional level, the advantages of Sino-Soviet detente are already evident. The ten-year Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea appears near an end. Following Moscow's example, India has started to mend its frayed relations with China...