Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer was not over, and ahead in the tindery future lay the industrial problems, of reconversion and peace. Many a U.S. citizen hoped that Harry Truman's new fire warden, Lewis Schwellenbach, would overhaul his equipment fast, then get some good men into the woods to keep sparks from flying...
Nurses thought the Corps should get an overhaul. They pointed out that, of some 330,000 registered nurses in the U.S., more than 15% have already joined the Army (or the Navy) Corps; many others, who volunteered, were rejected. To many a U.S. citizen the drafting of any women is repugnant. The nurses believed that their record scarcely justified Congress in singling them out and making them, alone of all U.S. women, objects of such legislation...
...obviously piqued; he announced his resignation in a terse, 21-word statement, without consulting anyone. Friends said he had been shunted aside in the campaign: he was not even invited to introduce Tom Dewey in Buffalo, as he always had before. His resignation meant that a major overhaul of New York State Republican machinery would be necessary before the gubernatorial election...
...G.O.P. tax policy, Dewey then made a set of six pledges, aiming them basically at a consistent, national tax policy-directed toward achieving full employment and a rising national income. The pledges included reductions of personal and corporate income-tax rates, and a complete overhaul of the entire tax situation toward clarity, simplicity and stability...
Prison life, wrote Captain Campbell, is perfect for reading and writing, leads men to review the bases of their lives, overhaul their values. Said he: "I fancy that many people would benefit by a year of enforced inactivity and freedom from small anxieties and distractions" to examine their own and others' conduct...