Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's show, "Drawings Old and New," would have been even more blasphemous to the French perfectionist. On exhibition were a Van Gogh landscape made of a briar patch of angry, tangled pen strokes; a Picasso drawing of two nudes which looked like sacks of coal (and another which might have been a doodle by Raphael); Group of Draped Standing Figures (headless) by British Sculptor Henry Moore; a wildly sketched, toad-faced "Conqueror" hoisting a stein of beer, by Mexican José Clemente Orozco. But even Ingres might have been willing to admit the simplicity and tenderness of Sculptor...
...battened down his furniture, opened the doors of his concert and banquet halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown in by a former R.C.A.F. flying instructor named Ross C. ("Bill") Shepherd, who offered to fly amputation cases to the party on a free shuttle service...
Tomorrow's Plans. What the advocates of economic nationalism had accomplished was not a patch on what they planned. "The Latin Americans," said the Commerce Department's George Wythe, author of the current and authoritative Industry in Latin America (Columbia University Press; $4), "have gone hog-wild for industrialization...
Grey, sad-eyed Major General Leslie R. Groves, who supervised development of the atomic bomb, has a symbolic shoulder patch: a question mark with a star, an atom, and a bolt of lightning. Last week when he appeared before the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee, the emphasis was on the question mark...
Politician Byrnes told Pat Hurley that the President wanted him to go back to China and patch things up. Hurley brought up his past experiences. The Secretary avoided the past, talked about the future. There was no talk about a basic change in U.S. policy. When Pat Hurley left, he put his letter of resignation on Jimmy Byrnes's desk. The Secretary left it there. He apparently believed that he had persuaded the Ambassador to return to Chungking...