Word: repairing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...royals repair to the palace, discreetly signaling to their lingering guests that the idyll has ended. Some leave as they came, in chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royces and Daimlers; others head homeward by tube or bus. In 1870 the Times of London wrote, "The day was one of which every particular is worthy to be treasured in memory." And it still...
...reluctant to obey. After they have used up their gas allocation, they say, they see no need to stick around. Besides, if they stay open on weekends, they will be swamped with customers and quickly sell out their allocation, leaving none for regular customers during the week. More repair work also occurs on weekdays. Says Wayne Konitchek, a spokesman for Connecticut's gasoline dealers: "I wouldn't close on a Tuesday to open on a Sunday when I can't subsidize the opening by repair work...
...fleet of jetliners. The move immobilized 12% of the capacity of U.S. passenger planes and substantially disrupted air travel. By week's end ominous faults of various kinds -cracked plates, loose bolts-had turned up in the pylons of 36 of the inspected aircraft. After repair, one got back into the air, with FAA permission, joining 102 found to have no defects. But Philip Hogue, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the American crash, said that he thought the planes should have been kept in hangars until the cause of the disaster had been more fully...
Instead of playing, Roberts missed several of the matches in California, as he was designated to repair the team van and do the squad's laundry. Bill Roberts' Harvard tennis career had come down to washing other people's jockstraps in a La Jolla laundromat...
...from Malaysia landed in Des Moines, but their expressions of joy and hope were much like those of the Soviet Jews. Tran Qui Son, 26, had fled Viet Nam by boat with his wife and two young sons after the Communist regime had forced him to close his appliance repair shop. They floated to Malaysia, where they huddled with 60,000 other refugees awaiting a new home. Said he: "In my country I could no longer care for my family. Here it will be different." The day after he arrived, he was able to find, with the help...