Word: mender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unexpected Rejection. The U.S. had expected some NATO allies to reject the offer-notably Norway and Denmark, who have steadfastly refused to have U.S. bombers based on their soil. Norway's Einar Gerhardsen, a 60-year-old ex-road mender who was one of the five Socialist or quasi-Socialist Premiers among the 14 present in Paris, promptly met that expectation. Said Gerhardsen: "We have no plans in Norway to let atomic stockpiles be established on Norwegian territory, or to construct launching sites for intermediate range ballistic missiles." What was not expected was his next statement. Seizing...
...sideline, became a successful speaker at Rotary Club luncheons. While on Rotary's wheel, Herold Christian Hunt swung over to a better job as superintendent of the rundown schools of Kalamazoo. After three years of cleaning up Kalamazoo, he was well established as an able mender of corrupt school systems. He rehabilitated the schools of New Rochelle, N.Y., Kansas City, Mo. and Chicago. After six years of rebuilding Chicago's moldering. politics-ridden schools, he abruptly abandoned his chosen field and accepted appointment (and a $15,000 salary cut) to Harvard's Graduate School of Education (TIME...
...Commission. (He won.) In 1946 George became county chairman ("I was the only one who could not talk his way out"), and in 1950, when his father retired from the state senate after a four-year term, George succeeded him. In Harrisburg he had a good record as a mender of factional splits, but after seven generations, George regarded himself as fundamentally a farmer. "I didn't look on politics as a career when I first got into it." he said last week, "and I still...
...morning last October, Jean Narcy, a road mender of Haute-Marne, France, was riding to work on his bicycle. In a wheat field he saw a little whiskered man just under 4 ft. tall, who wore a fur coat, an. orange corset and a plush...
...Midget Mender. A tiny hand loom for darning socks was put on sale by Selectric Products Co., Lynwood; Calif. Called the "Darn Easy," it consists of a small slide with hooks on its underside, is shuttled back & forth with finger and thumb. Price...