Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy ending never would have happened had Joan Webster remained in character as the girl who intended to marry for wealth rather than love. Either Miss Webster really didn't know where she was going...
...noonday, as she lay moored alongside a municipal parking wharf at the foot of Wood Street, a spark flew wild from a welding torch being used to repair a section of loose railing. Within a few seconds, the Island Queen's fuel tanks went up in two explosions so violent that frightened Pittsburghers cried, "Atom bomb!" Fire swept her decks. No passengers were aboard and many of the boat's 96 crew members, concessionaires and musicians were shopping ashore, but the toll was high: 19 dead, 17 injured...
Critic Ben Ray Redman's informative introduction to The Pleasures of Peacock lacks the sparkle of his subject's prose. So do the "narrative bridges" with which he tries to repair his damage in cutting entire sections from five of the novels...
...Finnish exports went for reparations; in 1946, 30%; and the expected figure for 1947 is only 15%. This mushrooming trade, now largely with the U.S., has enabled Finns to paint their shutters, fix the roof of the sauna (Finnish bath), refurbish their wardrobes, repair streets and roads...
...patient with sedatives, then fed into his veins two "quarts of a mixed solution of sugar, salt, vitamin B-1 and insulin. The hallucinations became milder; the patient went through the motions of tending bar, smoking (flicking imaginary ashes into an imaginary tray), and after a time began to repair an imaginary watch...