Word: mending
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...major byliners from the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and other countries, they set about cleaning toilets and performing other menial chores. Los Angeles Timesman William Tuohy swept the lobby floor; NBC's Douglas Kiker staggered under the weight of a trash can; another newsman risked drawing fire to mend the water tank...
...than 50,000 people perished and 800,000 were left homeless by June's earthquake. The Soviets did not send their first big supply shipments until nearly four weeks after the disaster struck. By that time the massive U.S. effort, which began almost immediately, was doing much to mend U.S.-Peruvian relations, and the Russians were anxious to keep the Americans from getting too much credit. Soviet aid began arriving in force aboard AN-22s and smaller AN-12s. The aid included a field hospital complete with doctors, nurses, cooks, bakers and drivers, two eleven-ton helicopters, 100 prefabricated...
Anticipating a holier-than-thou response from Manila, the prelates have already decided to mend their own ways. Church assets will be published and clerical opulence cut. Gold crosses and chains will be replaced by plain black cloth sashes, gold rings by bronze ones. So far, the government has kept silent...
...prompting names of Terrance, Sean. Noreen. Aloysius and Kathleen. To their Italian fathers dismay, they avoid the sun like moles, playing sourly in the shade or roaming dark hallways. Principato blunders through eleven years among this dreadful crew until his father, dying of cancer, announces that he will not mend his 35-year rift with Holy Mother Church and, far more shocking, intends to be cremated. The scandalized Corrigans mount a frenzied campaign to scoop old Principato into a sanctified casket-but only manage to ruin his son's life...
...rebuild, many say, you must first destroy. If the roof of my house leaks, I don't blow up the house, leaving my family homeless. I mend the roof. I long for a day when each person will try to figure out a real solution to a problem instead of a nonnegotiable demand...