Word: mended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democracy at Work. In Des Moines, the state legislature prepared to mend matters as best it could, after finding that the page boys and clerks had been pushing the voting buttons on the desks of absent members...
Then it seemed that Marvin Collins' luck was on the mend. Officers sent him to a U.S. base hospital somewhere in India and the dentists furnished him a set of teeth. Collins beamed as he boarded the train for New Delhi. But after he tested his teeth on canned salmon he got sick, leaned out the train window, lost salmon and teeth, too. Last week the Army newspaper, Roundup, was crusading for "Teeth for Collins." They thought this time it might be worked through British dentists, on reverse Lend-Lease...
...What Then? What the Russians will do then, say the Russians now, all depends. The Russians feel that by accepting enormous losses, such as would take a generation or two to mend, they could crush Hitler alone. But they do not choose to do that. The Red Army, said Stalin's Order, was "not created for the purpose of conquest of foreign countries, but to defend the frontiers of Soviet land." The Russians intend to have some army left to fight the peace with, too. Therefore, if the Allies have not moved on the Continent by the time Russia...
...Churchillian gifts of caprice and phrase made him add that if the Labor Party and the Tory Party did not mend their ways "a party of the center" may emerge and throw them. Observers noted the similarity between some of Churchill's ideas and those of a new political (ginger) group which has emerged officially under the title Common Wealth...
This training situation is somewhat on the mend. At scores of civilian fields, a new supplemental pilot program was under way this week, managed...