Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beyond either laughter or tears, and incredibly British, was a notice posted at a golf course outside London: Emergency Rule: Players may pick out of any bomb crater, dropping ball not nearer hole without penalty. Ground littered with debris may be treated as ground under repair...
...hardest tricks in surgery is the repair of torn nerves. Every human being has a fixed number of nerve cells at birth, and, unlike other cells, they do not multiply. Torn nerve fibres heal only by sending forth tendrils toward the severed ends. In stitching together jagged nerve ends, surgeon must be careful not to pull the nerve taut, must draw the silk through the petal-thin nerve sheath, not through its body...
...cinder-covered seats. At his office he changed shirts, sent the dirty one to the Long Island's claims agent, requested that it be laundered. "If this cannot be done," wrote he, "I donate the shirt for use as an oil rag in one of your repair shops...
...private supplier. For the sake of a two-ocean fleet, the U. S. Government is building (and taking title to) additions to Bethlehem's shipyards. Bethlehem engineers, said Steelmaker Grace last week, are expanding its San Francisco yards to build destroyers, converting its ship-repair facilities at Staten Island into ways for smaller ships...
...this section of the hook that an invader reaching for the Canal would almost inevitably make his strongest effort. Between its islands are scores of deep passages, in its coves thousands of spots from which destroyers, cruisers and patrol bombers could operate as soon as field repair facilities and oil-fuel supplies had been laid down. At the western foot of the Lesser Antilles, at Aruba in The Netherlands West Indies, is the world's largest oil refinery. At The Netherlands' Curacao near by are good commercial docks and workshops, an ample supply of fuel. Here...