Word: mends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...averts a worse disaster when he rams his locomotive through a stop signal. Demoted to a yard job that destroys the fag end of his pride, Andrea scabs during a strike, estranging himself from friends and family. Later, he suffers a heart attack and lives just long enough to mend the ties that bind, in a gay, tearful Christmas reunion at home...
Emphasizing the internal instability that sabotaged the Goldwater forces, Shaddeg lambastes speechwriters who toyed with ideas and ignored the counsel of experienced politicians. Goldwater did nothing to mend the flaws in his organization. The Republican nominee kept silent, supplying neither the control nor the inspiration that could have soldered together the splitting elements which supported him. Shaddeg leaves the impression that Goldwater would have obediently read anything his speechwriters handed him-indicating that he possessed a powerful general credo but nothing concrete on which to built a winning campaign...
...Force Secretary Harold Brown last week inherited a problem that has caused the Air Force considerable embarrassment. One of Brown's first tasks was to meet with outgoing Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert and 13 distinguished businessmen and educators-trustees all of the embattled Aerospace Corp. Subject: how to mend the firm's badly shredded reputation. Five years ago, convinced that no private corporation could capably handle the overall systems engineering and technical direction of its missile-development program, the Air Force set up California-based Aerospace as a Government-financed, nonprofit corporation. Some of the things that went...
...million violators each year are to mend their ways," said White, "it is wholly clear that we cannot tolerate the fix, that we cannot run traffic courts for revenue rather than for the purpose of influencing behavior, that serious violators must face judges. Their procedures should be upgraded and modernized to dispense justice on the one hand and to have the desired impact on the violator on the other hand...
...Whose arm is still on the mend. He can now bend his elbow and make a fist, but faces another tendon operation to give him fuller control of his hand...