Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three. He opened the door of a shoe-repair shop, silently entered, and killed Cobbler John Pilarchik with two thunderous shots. The street was still quiet as he got out to the sidewalk again...
Interruption. In Seattle, Lloyd A. Mclsaac explained that he was just on his way to a repair shop when police arrested him for operating a car with defective brakes, headlights, window glass, horn, muffler and tires...
...everyone to know, the Cardinal's statement said, just what the Catholics were and were not asking for. "We are not asking for general public support of religious schools . . . Under the Constitution we do not ask nor can we expect public funds to pay for the construction or repair of parochial school buildings, or for the support of teachers...
When the war began going against the Japanese, Negishi's bubble burst. Heavy Allied bombardments smashed most of his factory equipment. By war's end, the Negishi Manufacturing Co. was reduced to one dilapidated repair shop. For a while Negishi kept on trying to find orders. But times were bad. He grew disgusted, retired to his country inn in Chiba, where he found pleasant company in the inn's manager, a lissome 23-year-old girl...
Handyman. In Spokane, Disc-Jockey Robert Swartz, who had offered to do any odd jobs for listeners recognizing a popular tune played backwards, faced the prospect, after 18 people guessed right, of having to roof a house, iron some shirts, mow a lawn, repair a fishpond and weed a strawberry patch...