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Shame Without Blame. Nevertheless, the carpeting appropriation still stood, and the doors will come off for a refit. Last week, as Senators and their staffs moved from their cramped quarters in the old Senate Office Building over to the White Goof (only 42 out of 98 are making the switch), Washingtonians were still casting around for somebody to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Great White Goof | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...loose enough so that signers' opinions about the Council may run from intense antipathy to apathy. But the thousand-odd signatures on the petitions, whatever their motivation, ought to persuade he Council to take at least a long look at itself, and then put in for a much-needed refit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cure for the Council | 4/21/1950 | See Source »

McIndoe's job required much more than surgery; he had to refit his patients for normal life. He insisted on first-name familiarity among patients and hospital staff. He sent groups of his flyers on trips to London, with tickets to the theater and reservations at night clubs. He made sure that his patients had pretty nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Man Who Makes Faces | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Last week the Coast Guard announced that the 47-year-old Mayflower was getting a complete refit at Norfolk, would soon go to war again, this time as a convoy escort vessel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Hardy Perennial | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

After their mauling before Sevastopol, Manstein's troops probably had to rest and refit, but the Luftwaffe air fleet could fly immediately to the Kursk-Kharkov fronts. Fritz Erich von Manstein had earned his quick promotion to Field Marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fall of a City | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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