Word: mended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honestly nuts to get up and jump and I'm crazy about this outfit. But it's a little funny. I've never been in a plane in my life." He jumped, sprained both legs. Undaunted, he will jump from a plane when his legs mend...
Part II, The World Is Your Adventure, settles down to Russia proper. It is the summer of great famine; the New Economic Policy is but a few months old. The torn political-economic tissues-which had bound Russia to Western Europe are beginning to mend, and European capitalists are coming to Moscow "like so many giant corpuscles working towards an abscess." Corpuscle Haverkamp and Corpuscle Champcenais are among them; their attitude towards Soviet Russia is that of imperial colonizers toward a savage kingdom. Warmer and more confused is the attitude of Minister Buitton and Jerphanion, who is his secretary...
...long since made Douglas MacArthur one of the great captains of U.S. military history. Against his 15-mile front the Jap charged again & again. Even Tokyo admitted that the going was bitter and hard. At the beginning of last week the Japanese paused to catch their breath and mend their supply lines...
Recently Fields drew blood. Universal sent him a legal document threatening court action if he didn't mend his studio manners (i.e., references to company executives, language in front of cinemoppets, general demeanor). Back came a reply: "Dear Sir, Mr. Fields and I read your letter and did we laugh." It was signed "Adele" (Fields's Negro housemaid...
...most wasteful nation in the world began to mend its ways this week. All over the U.S., housewives dug into closets, came up with old aluminum pots & pans for defense.* OPM hoped the drive would turn up 15-20,000,000 lb. of scrap aluminum which could either be converted directly into defense products or used to replace virgin metal which would then be freed for aircraft production. This is the aluminum equivalent of some 4,000 fighter planes or 740 big bombers. The scrap will be sold to smelters through the Treasury Procurement Division. Money from the sale will...