Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the war's end is in sight, and Soviet influence is sure to be felt in Central Europe, Russia seems much closer. So for months, influential Swiss groups have been urging their reluctant Government to patch up its quarrel with Moscow...
...built in the basement of the old anthropological museum. There a boy in Navy uniform knelt at a golden altar, his new artificial leg stuck out behind him at an awkward angle. In a smoke-filled billiard room in the old California Tower Building a marine with a black patch over one eye cocked his head back so he could use his good left eye for sighting...
Killed in Action. Army Captain Alexander M. Patch 3rd, 24, West Point-trained only son of the 7th Army's Commander Lieut. General Alexander Patch; while assaulting an enemy position in France...
South of Patton's army, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army was learning the same kind of lesson, taught by desperate Germans from the North Sea to the Alps. Through forests, hills and French hamlets in the Belfort area the Seventh gained a few hundred yards a day in hard, wary fighting against Germans who infiltrated and ambushed, kept the attackers on constant, red-eyed alert...
...Farmer Ellison, recently inducted into the Army, this prize money was just another cash token of an operating success that started when he was 13. By then he had saved up enough money to buy a pig. A little later he borrowed money to finance an eight-acre cotton patch; paid off his debt with his first crop...