Word: refitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
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...
...hand. And no crew that ever sailed the seas could be more unruly than the average opera house's staff of strutting tenors and temperamental prima donnas. Last week, just as the Metropolitan Opera Company was launching a public drive for $1,000,000 to help buy and refit the aged opera house where it puts on its performances,* grey-haired, wiry General Manager Edward Johnson was faced with the first big mutiny of his career...