Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...torn Yellow River valley, "China's Sorrow" threatened to burst the dikes held by both armies. The alarmed Red radio mixed propaganda with its pleading: "It is impossible to complete dike repair work because of constant Nationalist raids . . . We request Nationalist troops and air forces to cease their obstruction...
Headwinds. As the week opened, Bob Taft hurried in to repair his earlier flub on farm prices, assured the voters that he meant revision, not reduction, of the parity ratio. While Taft took the low road (North Platte, Grand Island, Crete, Beatrice, Wahoo), wife Martha took the high road (Hyannis, Broken Bow, York, Seward, O'Neill). In three jampacked days, Bob addressed 8,000 in 13 speeches; Martha delivered a dozen more...
...Haven teams arrive Saturday morning, and will repair to the Union for a pre-game meal...
...open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said: "Two hands are being offered you. Will you grasp the hand of capitalism or the hand of Stalin?" Dutiful stooges started yelling: "Stalin," but were drowned out by hearty shouts of "Neither...
...characters are hardly less moving and memorable. There is so little story, and it is so simply and deeply germane to daily life, that it is hard to realize that most of it was re-enacted and that some of it was invented. The Grandfather is very anxious to repair and enlarge the house, which has begun to sag and crack along one corner; the women are fully as eager to bring in electric current. They can't afford both in the same year. Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still...