Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general overhaul of the judicial system designed to eliminate useless officials and to raise the pay and professional standards of France's judges...
...between the Nationalist Chinese and the Communists on the mainland over possession of Formosa are brought up only during times of "crises." Because of this "brink-tottering statesmanship," he said, we are "kept on the run from crisis to crisis. There are no indications," he added, "of a thorough overhaul of long range policy toward the Far East...
...with the recent decision of the South African government to overhaul native education--"Education for the Bantu"--art and the humanities have suffered, and the pioneer art education project has suffered as well. So this is really the best time for Mvusi to be studying in America...
...Trans World Airlines' big Kansas City overhaul center and its other bases around the U.S. last week, 7,000 members of the International Association of Machinists marched out on strike. No planes would be serviced, none overhauled. The nation's fourth biggest line had no choice but to shut down. T.W.A.'s 196 daily flights, carrying 12,000 passengers across the U.S. and to 23 foreign cities, flew on to their destinations. Then the big Super Connies and twin-engined Martins were grounded, and the line locked up shop...
...Even before he arrived, the Kremlin air crackled with premonitory flashes as the big boss, like a storm thundering over the horizon, moved slowly northward toward his desk, fulminating all sorts of commands and imprecations as he advanced. Far south in the Caucasus he rumbled darkly of the wholesale overhaul he plans for the Soviet school system, warned all parents that his project of sending all teen-agers out for two years' work before finishing their schooling cannot be put off till their "dear little Sashenkas and Mashenkas have first got safely through...