Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because it marked the re-establishment of full diplomatic intercourse." Wrote Pundit Lippmann: "As a result of the U-2 and the breakup of the summit conference in Paris, there was in fact, although not in form, a rupture of diplomatic relations between Moscow and Washington." Kennedy's repair work on that rupture, Lippmann added, was "a very considerable achievement...
...Rivera is the kind of man who can repair a tractor, shoe a horse or fit a pipe, and he did all those things as a youth on his family's Louisiana sugar plantation, where his Spanish-descended father was an engineer in the mill. But the last thing he wanted to do was to spend the rest of his life on a plantation. He went to Chicago, where he happened to pay a visit to the Art Institute and to what is now the Museum of Natural History. There he was so beguiled by a collection of Egyptian...
...Kennedy Administration is urgently anxious to repair the damage of the Cuban disaster. But it is not likely that U.S. money and equipment will be going to any invaders from now on (U.S. troops have also been ruled out, unless Castro provokes their use). This means that the effort will probably be directed toward men already inside Cuba, mainly Manolo Ray's M.R.P. underground, most of whose agents, Ray insists, are still in business...
...Detachments of U.S. Army engineers to repair guerrilla-wrecked bridges, construct roads and airstrips...
...shave. Her Romanov husband was impotent, mad and sadistic, and his favorite pastime was to play with his toy soldiers or flog a dachshund suspended by a rope from the ceiling. "In later life," writes Nicolson, in a sly reference to her 30-odd lovers, "she did much to repair this gap in her experience." In later life she was also a great lip servant of liberty ("Liberty is the core of everything; without it there would be no life"). The French philosopher Diderot once shook her till her shoulders were black and blue to get her to apply...