Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point was to get the junk off what furniture wasn't smashed and patch the roof quick against rain. . . . The blast had pushed the back and front walls some eight inches from the sidewalks so we couldn't risk ladders. We had to climb the inner sidewall and snake a tarpaulin through, weight it and throw it over the front and back walls since you couldn't stand on them. And you never knew when the floors would go. Yes it was a bit sticky, that...
...most of the afternoon they were swinging pickaxes on a onetime plantation at the end of 18th Avenue North, west of Hootin' Annie and Billy Goat Hills. Members of the American Friends Service Committee's first interracial work camp in the South, they were converting a little patch of former slave soil into a recreation field for local...
...cabbage patch, a 14-year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...
...used in service units, both here and overseas, but not in actual combat. They will enjoy special privileges not allowed them as prisoners, such as visits from relatives and friends. They will be subject to regular Army regulations, and will wear overseas caps with a red and green patch and a green arm brassard bearing in white letters the word: "Italy...
...Worst fault: lack of outdoor exercise yards." I agree. To me the latter-day equivalent of "the patch of blue the prisoners call the sky" was one of the most difficult things. The overcrowding - even the little of it that I experienced...