Word: repairman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days. California's Department of Professional and Vocational Standards has instituted a television-repair inspection system that has trimmed $15 million a year from fraudulent fix-it bills. The department tests the honesty of any suspicious repair outfit by planting deliberately broken sets in private homes; if the repairman makes unnecessary charges, his license is lifted...
Angela, a 48 year-old housewife living in an affluent Boston suburb, finds that her TV is on the fritz. She calls in a repairman to fix it. and she promptly has an affair with him. The repairman 23, also happens to be an inventor. Angela, whose husband is a military man and far away, decides to ?rap the inventor in her home until he comes up with the invention that will free him forever from TV-repairmanship. After three months. he does and leaves. Hubby comes home and a rejuvenated Angela begins her marriage anew...
...York political terms, the construction worker, the policeman, the telephone repairman already buy Mario Procaccino's brand of politics. They leave the Democratic Party only when it swings too far to the liberal side, and Procaccino has not done that. He also seeks to include behind his average-man barricade another, more elusive segment of the population?typified by the schoolteacher, the junior accountant, the shopkeeper, the middle-income lawyer or engineer who chooses to work for the government...
Njoroge, a onetime waiter and watch repairman, is a delegate from KANU's Nairobi branch and an errand boy for some Nairobi politicians. Mboya's task in the final months of his life was to find new candidates for the party and unseat its more corrupt elements; his mandate and his actions threatened some of KANU's old hands. Whether one of them asked Njoroge to pull the trigger or whether the assassin acted alone may well prove to be the crucial question of the trial...
...than $500, it may be impossible. A Northbrook, Ill., woman who wanted to have the trim and eaves of her brick ranch house painted, called more than a dozen contractors but failed to get so much as an estimate from any of them. A Houston homeowner who accepted a repairman's offer to re-roof his house says: "He showed up two weeks late and immediately demanded an additional $200 for materials. He abandoned us three times, and I had to call and raise hell each time to get him back. After he left, we found the roof leaked...