Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, in Manhattan, after an operation to repair his left hip, fractured when the Perfesser slipped while alighting from a taxi during the scheduled week-long celebration of his 75th birthday; former Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda, 65, in Tokyo, with aftereffects from the radiation treatment used last November to rid him of the nonmalignant throat tumor that forced him to resign the premiership; Barry Goldwater, 56, in Phoenix, after a four-hour cervical laminectomy to repair an old injury to vertebrae in his neck...
Rigid Regimen. Cobb stuck to his stiff regimen, completed the program last spring. Now, at 232, he has gone to work in an Augusta shoe-repair shop. He returns to the hospital for a checkup every other week, and has maintained his new figure. Says he: "There's a heap more will power connected with it than anything else...
Advantage of Intimacy. Once Reedy quit to undergo a series of foot operations, the President set out to repair his tattered press relations by putting one of his most trusted aides in the job. While only briefly a newsman, Moyers, at 31, has worked for Johnson in one way or another for most of the last eleven years. A graduate of the University of Texas and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas, he served as deputy director of the Peace Corps before he moved into the White House...
...words to fortify my strange and peculiar thoughts. Trying to be casual, I would then light a match, which is normal procedure before my daily conversation with God. After completing the quiz, I would leave the room (carefully using my new handkerchief on the doorknob) and hurry home to repair the door latch...
...unless Kenyatta handed over the arms, and only a hurried motion for adjournment prevented their delegates from walking out of a Central Legislative Assembly meeting in Nairobi. At week's end Assembly Secretary-General Dunstan Omari was frantically trying to arrange an emergency East African summit conference to repair the damage. His prospects were not improved by the announcement in Dares Salaam that the original owner of the arms, Chinese Communist Premier Chou Enlai, will pay a friendly visit to Tanzania early next month...