Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franco leaned down to pat the dog's head. Without warning, the animal leaped forward and Di Franco felt his face gripped between Ferdinand's powerful, crushing jaws as his pet tore a long gash in his right cheek that took scores of stitches to repair...
Water backed up in drain pipes caused two inches of flooding in Widener Library's basement Thursday night, but Frank Lamentea, assistant business manager of Harvard College Library, said only minimal damage was done, costing approximately $500 to repair...
...food found in his family's business. Now completing his first full term in Congress, Republican Heinz represents a Pennsylvania district that embraces both aristocratic exurbs and grimy mill towns. He specializes in health and environmental affairs, has toiled to keep his Pittsburgh-area fences in good repair, and is a shoo-in for reelection. A graduate of Yale and the Harvard Business School, Heinz is a moderate who has fought with the Administration to end U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and to secure funds for the national Community Mental Health Centers Program...
...special train. Solving such problems as whether to serve Pol Roger or Moët et Chandon (solution: serve both) and the arrangement of bushels of country flowers was at least as exhausting as Mayor de Rothschild's more commonplace concerns, such as the town's road repair. At the end of it all, she said distractedly, there may be "plus de maire et plus de mère"-no more mayor and no more mother left...
...Simpson: "We're not a captive of anybody." Under Simpson, the CPSC has moved against exploding soda-pop bottles, easily shattered glass doors, poorly wired electrical appliances. In its first year of operation the CPSC has forced a total of 15 million product units off the market for repair or replacement...