Word: mends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 60 years ago, Fioravanti said, he happened to meet two brothers named Riccardi who specialized in mending ancient pottery for Italian antique dealers. Though a tailor at the time, Fioravanti became fascinated by the business, soon had a job in the Riccardi shop. Then one day the three men got an idea: If they could mend ancient works of art, why could they not also create them from scratch...
...government" the Russians claim to be supporting. Souvanna dismissed his visitors as "a pathetic bunch of clowns" and went back to his gardening. "We have been a plaything of the big powers, a doll which has been broken," he said loftily. "It is up to the big powers to mend...
...opposite might prove to be true. The Anglican and the Dutch Reformed Churches find themselves drawn together in mutual concern, as they have not been since Anglican Archbishop Joost de Blank of Capetown threatened to resign from the World Council of Churches if the Dutch Reformed Churches did not mend their racial ways. At the close of the World Council consultation, Archbishop de Blank rose and begged forgiveness from the Dutch Reformed Church men for any hurt he might previously have caused in his impassioned campaigning. Promptly and warmly they forgave him. Says Alan Paton: "The archbishop's action...
Sergei Prokofiev was one of seven Soviet composers (among the others: Khachaturian and Shostakovich) denounced in 1948 "for formalistic and anti-democratic tendencies in music which are alien to the Soviet people." Confessing his "guilt," the great Russian composer promised to mend his Western ways in his next opera, which proved to be his last. Ten months later. The Story of a Real Man was submitted to the Composers' Union, was promptly banned as "anti-melodious" and still reeking with "the decay of bourgeois culture." Now, long after his official post-Stalin rehabilitation and seven years after his death...
...supporting France, the U.S. will also help mend its sagging NATO fences. However one regards the Congo crisis, it certainly demonstrated a disturbing lack of western unity. No matter how much the U.S. feels pressured by the increasing momentum of African nationalism, it cannot forget its allies and its interests...