Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before guests invited to a BBC rehearsal in London's Albert Hall, Sir Adrian told his men that they were "all too tired to play their best." He advised them to emulate him by resting up weekends, specifically forbade golf, gardening and repair work on blitzed houses. "A little washing up" (but not too much) was sufficient exercise, he said...
...seniority" - meaning that an honorably discharged veteran is entitled to his old job, or a similar one, with his old company for at least a year, even though it means firing an employe with greater seniority. Thus, when Welder Fishgold was laid off from Brooklyn's Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. for ten days, while nonveterans with more seniority were kept on (TIME, June 18), Selective Service backed him in the first court test of super-seniority...
...important naval usage. The Jap base at Truk, perhaps the Pacific's best landlocked anchorage, would presumably be acquired by what Truman called "arrangements consistent with the United Nations Charter." Postwar rights to Manus, an Australian mandate in the Admiralties which the Seabees built into a major fleet repair station, would be subject to negotiation, would undoubtedly entail reciprocal rights to one or more U.S. bases...
Somehow, after an indeterminate confinement, perhaps at forced labor to repair some of the damage they had wrought, these millions who had swarmed out like locusts must be shipped home-and somehow squeezed into teeming Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido. Not one of the countries which they had plagued would keep them a day longer than necessary...
...rehearse on. In a year, 45 volunteer teachers have given more than 3,000 lessons, and some 12,000 servicemen have practiced in the Canteen atop the Homer L. Kitt music store in downtown Washington. (The store donates the space, and keeps the 100-odd available instruments in repair...