Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark, wear special red glasses for a while beforehand. Wearing a black patch over one eye and then shifting it to the other eye just before stepping into darkness works pretty well...
Today, concludes Author Sayre, "if you see a fellow wearing a green shoulder patch with a red scimitar and a white star in it, you had better buy him a drink. He did well...
Then there is the Air Medal Correspondent Teddy White won for "the courage and bravery he demonstrated when he flew important and dangerous missions" with the men of China-Burma- India. Command and the felt patch Bernard Hoffman wore sewed to the back of his shirt when he went along on the first B-29 raid on Japan, to identify himself to Chinese guerrillas in case his plane was forced down...
...British Empire, oil-rich, rubber-rich Sarawak is an in dependent patch on the northwest rim of Dutch Borneo. Britain's control stops at defense and foreign affairs. For a century Sarawak was the absolute domain of the Brooke dynasty, founded in 1841, when a swashbuckling English adventurer, James Brooke, quelled an insurrection there for the Sultan of Brunei and proclaimed himself Raja...
General Alexander M. Patch crawled into a baby pen in Staunton, Va., provided news photographers with the week's high in pictures of generals fraternizing with children. He took his ease (see cut) with Grandchildren A. M. Patch IV and Julie Drummond...