Word: repaint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William Minney, Buildings and Grounds College Area Superintendent, estimated the repair costs in the "Low thousands of dollars." He said that B&G will have to refinish the warped floors and repaint the stained ceilings and water-swollen walls...
Cambridge may delay the enforcement of its jaywalking law until June to give the City time to repaint some of its most important crosswalks...
...painted her style on the House, quite literally. Upon her arrival she asked to have her office painted blue, her favorite color. There are reports that Buildings and Grounds tried during the summer to ascertain whether Miss Methessel was getting married soon, so that it wouldn't have to repaint the office. The office is now blue...
Will Ye No Come Back? "We work hard and we play hard," explained a Royal Marine. Between shows and rehearsals, there are boots to black, pith helmets to repaint, ostrich feathers and bearskins to comb. It is Silvo-Polish and elbow grease that keep the buttons blinding bright, treacle that caulks the bagpipe bags and keeps them from cracking. The shows are work too. One of the Scots Guards pipers blew so hard one night he had to be hospitalized with a suspected hernia, but gamely returned to action the next day's matinee-fitted out in a truss...
...time to speak to a stranger or persuade a beggar to accept a gift. He was, of course, frequently taken advantage of; after his paintings began to sell, chiselers took up the habit of bringing obvious Renoir forgeries to his door, knowing that he would obligingly "correct"-that is. repaint-the canvases and give them back. The painter saw through the racket, or always claimed later that he did, but it was easier for him to paint a Renoir than become indignant at a swindler. The only irritants that instantly roused him to anger were those of modernity: traffic noise...