Word: mends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election results were scarcely in before a rumor flew that Humphrey was about to be dispatched to Europe to mend NATO fences and to talk with Charles de Gaulle. Nothing has come of that. Next came a rumor that Humphrey would visit India and Pakistan and help patch up their differences...
...washing their hands of Indonesia's erratic strongman, Sukarno, the alliance is clearly a case of economic necessity rather than natural affinity. Both countries have been hurt by the disruption of their once strong economic ties, and both have had to swallow national pride in an attempt to mend them...
...meticulous ironers but recalcitrant dishwashers, the Swiss overly concerned with dust but not too quick about doing something about it. The Americans? Said one experienced au pair hand last week: "They'll have to learn to get along with one bath a week without shrieks of complaint, mend their own clothes and not throw them away; la vie, after all, n'est pas si facile...
...thinking of most of the party's top politicians, it had to do with the wavering image of West German leadership-largely because of the transition from old Konrad Adenauer's autocratic rule to Der Dicke's noticeably milder administrative manner. "I can't mend what they smash in Bonn," mourned one losing pro-government candidate last week. Added a high party functionary: "We have had a warning that we must produce some forceful leadership...
...learning about journalism I had to learn about journalists. No other profession is so heavily criticized. No other is preached at so much and told so often to mend its ways. Some of the loudest critics have a very simple code for us. It is this. 'Don't ever print anything about me that I wouldn't want people to read...