Word: mend
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...Center: it is to be devoutly hoped that (excuse me) the new auditorium seating design (pardon me, sir) with its long rows of seats unbroken by aisles (I'm sorry, may I just get by here . . . thank you) will encourage those tiresome Los Angeles latecomers (oops, sorry!) to mend their ways and start arriving on time. (Pardon me, could you folks all move down one seat...
There has been a deep split in the Republican Party for at least fifteen years, but it has been--and will be--far more difficult to mend after Goldwater's victories in the California primary and at the San Francisco convention. The Congressional leaders sensed the difficulties and rallied to the Senator's support after the primary. His convention victory has raised the more ideological Goldwater group's expectations to the point where they will be satisfied only with another such victory...
...election results were scarcely in before a rumor flew that Humphrey was about to be dispatched to Europe to mend NATO fences and to talk with Charles de Gaulle. Nothing has come of that. Next came a rumor that Humphrey would visit India and Pakistan and help patch up their differences...
...washing their hands of Indonesia's erratic strongman, Sukarno, the alliance is clearly a case of economic necessity rather than natural affinity. Both countries have been hurt by the disruption of their once strong economic ties, and both have had to swallow national pride in an attempt to mend them...
...meticulous ironers but recalcitrant dishwashers, the Swiss overly concerned with dust but not too quick about doing something about it. The Americans? Said one experienced au pair hand last week: "They'll have to learn to get along with one bath a week without shrieks of complaint, mend their own clothes and not throw them away; la vie, after all, n'est pas si facile...