Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm, tug on the sleeve and an insinuating voice saying, 'That's a nice patch you're wearing; have you a spare you don't need?' And so it goes. . . . Would appreciate anything you gentlemen . . . can furnish Bobby and me." We furnished Bobby and his father with whatever shoulder patches we could squeeze out of our returned war correspondents...
...cast of characters has taken over the roles once played by railroad tycoon Mark Hopkins; by Educators Emma Marwedel ("Have faith in the kindergartens") and Kate Douglas Wiggin (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch); by Socialite Mrs. Hall McAllister; by Author Jack London; even by "Cowboy Maggie" Kelly...
...commend the book for its literary qualities. It contains enough gummed-up syntax to patch hell a mile. But as a study in the art of carrying water on both shoulders, of sophistry, of writing with tongue-in-cheek, and of intellectual dishonesty, I think it has no superior since the beginning of time...
...read your fortune," whined an old gypsy woman at the grandstand where bunting fluttered and only a patch of bright new brick, where a bomb had struck, recalled a recent war. In a third-tier box a discussion raged over whether to open the champagne with lunch or stick to the burgundy. "My God," said one, "the redder with lunch. The champoo afterwards...
...tomorrow's historians even noted it, they might describe what happened on June 1, 1946 in these words: "A patch work compromise stitched lightly together by the U.N. subcommittee on Spain showed the inherent futility of world cooperation." Or the books might say: "For the first time, a U.N. body reached agreement on a major political issue dividing the great powers ; the report on Spain was weak, but it established the precedent for stronger ones to follow." The subcommittee (Australia, Poland, France, China and Brazil) went along with the U.S.-British view that Franco was not a "threat...