Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the retreating Aussies made a stand at Ioribaiwa, Kenney's planes swarmed north. They struck the supply line crawling from Buna. They struck airdromes again & again. Presently the stunned Jap no longer bothered to repair the craters in his strips. During the height of the Guadalcanal action came a six-week period in which no Jap plane dared to take the air. Since Nov. 1 no Jap reinforcements for New Guinea have landed intact. Most of them never landed...
Casually, in passing, Skipper Bruton remarked that he had put two torpedoes into a Japanese carrier. Casually the Navy passed the remark. Those two torpedoes, which at the least forced a repair period of nearly two months, had made a great difference at a time when the balance of available carrier power leaned heavily in Japan's favor...
Then came Lincoln's assassination and President Johnson's battles with a hostile Congress, led by the redoubtable and unscrupulous Thaddeus Stevens (Lionel Barrymore). Johnson seeks to conciliate the South and repair the Union; Stevens to punish the rebels. This part of the film treads on blood-soaked ground, has already aroused protests from a few Negro-philes, who revere Abolitionist Stevens as a hero. At the suggestion of the OWI, Director William Dieterle reshot some sequences to make Abolitionist Stevens a more sympathetic character...
Nearly everybody else had already had his say on Admiral Jean François Darlan, when last week the Admiral decided to have a say for himself. He took great pains to repair his reputation. At the exotic Palais d'Eté in Algiers he received correspondents individually and en masse. The Admiral was wearing sharkskin civvies with a white shirt, a brown polka-dot tie and black shoes. His grey-green eyes peered brightly through his horn-rimmed spectacles. Tiny veins threaded his florid cheeks. His grey hair was trimmed close. He sat behind a glass-topped work...
Moreover the Leader-News's advertising linage went down 100,000 lines in 1942. Said white-haired, florid George Greene: "It's getting tough to get metal and repair parts too. Brother Greene will have to buckle down and go to work...