Word: mends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came clearly through the receiver. The colonel cut them off: "No, no, no! Tomorrow will not do. You don't realize what's happening. I've got the American here. All he keeps saying is 'Now!' Listen, my boy, we've got to mend our bad old ways. I tell you things are different with these foreigners around. Report here instantly...
...make money on cattle, Bob Kleberg runs his feudal domain with the hard fist of a feudal lord. But he has hundreds of miles of fence to mend and mind-and everything within those fences. To outsiders, the feudal fist sometimes seems too hard. There were unpleasant rumbles against the ranch in 1936 when two poachers supposedly disappeared within it. (The Klebergs think that if they really did disappear on their ranch, they might well have got lost and starved to death.) Now, as a good-will gesture, 40 hunters a week are permitted on the ranch during hunting seasons...
Placement specialist Bucky Harrison worked out with the Varsity, temporarily forsaking the Jayvee and Kirkland House elevens to provide kicking insurance for the squad in case Emil Drvaric's injury does not mend in time for the game Saturday. Yesterday's prediction by the doctors was that Drvaric would probably be able to make the trip, but he did not join the regular drills for the second successive...
...plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
...true function of the educational facilities at Harvard. President Eliot's opulent days, which Mr. Scully smugly uses as a measure of the University today, are gone and forgotten. Today there are few profits. The Massachusetts Legislature, instead of sniping at the roots of established institutions, might well mend their own educational fences...