Word: patch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when koalas had almost vanished from the Australian bush, a penniless 22-year-old Brisbane naturalist named Noel Burnet dedicated his life to saving the species from extinction. He started out with four koalas in his boardinghouse back yard, soon interested a philanthropist who rented him a 50-acre patch near Sydney for a shilling a year. He named it Koala Park, planted eucalyptus trees, built a koala hospital, developed a thriving colony which tourists came from far & wide to see. Naturalist Burnet did not grow rich on his tourist trade, had a perpetual struggle to keep himself...
...character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered, sneered, gloomed, acquired a pair of shorts and a sunflower patch over his navel, served as inspiration for a new political animal, taken his place in cartoon history...
...were so vexed that they mutinied against their officers on the sloop Afonso de Albuquerque and the destroyer Dāo. Immediately Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar opened fire on the ships with powerful Lisbon fortress batteries, disabled and towed them ashore where it will not be difficult to patch them up. Oliveira Salazar soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government intimated that it had known beforehand of the coming mutiny and, instead of nipping it, had deliberately permitted...
Only cloud on the autumnal business horizon was that patch which always spooks Industry with the shadow of political uncertainty in a Presidential election year...
First step was to make a clay model of the mutilated head exactly as it was found. Next, with the assistance of police surgeons, Sculptor Guinzburg began to patch up the missing features, combining them in six different models. Haverstraw's Who was modeled: i) with the right eye closed, the left eye open; 2) squinting; 3) with a closed jaw and a hard & firm mouth; 4) with a bulbous nose; 5) with a mustache. Model No. 6, brought to New York last week, was a composite of all the others. New York City police were impressed...