Word: mending
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...France, he was then still basking in the warmth of a hero's welcome. Since then many things have happened to Sergei Prokofiev. The hero's welcome wore out. Two years ago, he was sharply reprimanded for "bourgeois decadence." He meekly promised to mend his ways...
...week's end Mrs. Tucker seemed to be fairly on the mend. What pleased the doctors most: she was calling for the bedpan at regular intervals...
House spiders, whose implacable enemy is the housewife, make thick, haphazard webs which Author Crompton regards as a mess. This spider spins only at night, but works indefatigably, and is willing to mend and patch. The only mouse ever recorded as caught and killed by a spider was the victim of a house spider. In Britain, the biggest house spider has a body nearly an inch long, and, counting the legs, is four inches across. This monster is called "the cardinal," because once, at Hampton Court, one scared the 16th Century's Cardinal Wolsey almost to death...
...five big manufacturers of anti-cold drugs.-Last week in Washington, FTC abruptly announced that the hearings had been called off. Reason: the companies, which had ballyhooed across-the-drug-counter sales of anti-his-taminics into a potential $100-million-a-year business, had signed agreements to mend their advertising ways...
...cross transfusion-a daring technique (TIME, June 13) of interchanging his blood with that of a healthy donor. The donor's kidneys were supposed to do some of the work which Bobby's were failing tb do, and thus give the ailing organs a chance to mend...