Word: repairable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said Henri-Albert Joinville, 46, a road repair man: "The Marshall plan was quite simple when it started and now the politicians are trying to make it complicated. It is still simple for me. We are in trouble. If we don't get help, there may be anarchy in France. The Americans have offered to help all those countries which are willing to help each other. We have accepted. Now let's get ahead. Pour l'amour de Dieu, pas de pagaille! [For God's sake, let's not mess around...
Because it seems to encourage free enterprise, the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25) has long been a favorite text at businessmen's luncheons. In need of money for repairs, the First Presbyterian Church of Bluffton, Ohio thought up a more specific use for the parable. One way to collect the repair money, suggested Layman Eugene Benroth, might be by re-enacting the parable. One day last February, after borrowing 200 ten-dollar "talents," the Rev. E. N. Bigelow distributed them among his congregation...
...dung and (endless toil, which wondered in bewilderment what was happening to it. The little man in India had never asked for Pakistan or Hindustan or even for independence, except when his leaders told him. He was scarcely aware who ruled him. Recently a tattered Hindu peasant helped to repair a blowout on a car in the Punjab. Asked what he thought of the Government in New Delhi (now a temporary, joint Hindu-Moslem Cabinet, operating under viceregal veto), he replied, "I never heard...
...each side. The embattled tribes had been turning out homemade wooden rifles, six feet long. In a divided India, where 38 million Moslems are still within the borders of Hindu India, 18 million Hindus and two million Sikhs within Pakistan, few supposed that political deals in Delhi could really repair the breach between religious communities...
...Miss. In Pittsburgh, a thief got into a house-under-repair through a new window, took the window away with him when he left. In Los Angeles, a burglar was frightened out of Bernard B. Cohen's house by the aggressive family...