Word: refurbish
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...Eisenhower insistence on more young faces and fresh voices in the party councils. As a man whose political ideal is Teddy Roosevelt, Hall knows well what the boss wants -and knows that the years remaining with Ike in the presidency are all the time the party may have to refurbish itself...
...Dropped a Gómez scheme to write a totalitarian constitution, and named Liberals as well as Conservatives to a commission which will refurbish the present...
...Westminster Abbey. Restoring ancient figures is Howgrave-Graham's hobby. Since his apprenticeship in the '20s, when a clock jack (a clock-striking figure) in Southwold Church hit him on the head with its hammer, he has developed great skill. Yes, said Howgrave-Graham, he could refurbish the figures...
...cabin to symbolize Millionaire Oilman Kerr's humble beginnings. When they discovered the cabin would cost $25,000, they settled for a papier-mache model worth $600. A "Kids for Kefauver" club scavenged the International Amphitheater to collect hundreds of old Taft signs, set to work to refurbish the sticks with Kefauver signs...
...proof, wrote the dissenter, that it was Betsy who had made the first American flag. "It is a sad day indeed when governmental agencies start promoting romantic rumors as though they are historical facts." Nonsense, retorted Donaldson's philatelic experts. A. Atwater Kent had spent good money to refurbish the Ross house in Philadelphia as a historical shrine; the Daughters of the American Revolution had approved the stamp; furthermore, "even if it is a myth, it is a pleasant one . . . that has been in all the history books and which all the school children love...