Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth's new chief has long worn the Crusader patch on his shoulder: he had led the Eighth's XXX Corps, its tank spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver was thrice wounded in World War I. He fought with World War II's B.E.F. in Flanders, still has a score to pay for Dunkirk...
...skin-grafting operation was a bloody business. Each new stitch to hold the big skin-patch in place added to the bleeding and decreased the chances of a take-oozing blood may keep a graft from sticking. A masked woman by the table, Belgian-born Dr. Machteld E. Sano, was thinking fast as she watched the needle. And she got an idea: why not "glue" a graft in place with such animal-chemical substances as are used in tissue culture (TIME, June 13, 1938), such stuff as keeps bits of chicken heart and other organs alive outside the body...
Sometimes the most thoughtful planning cannot anticipate every need, or every quirk of war and weather. Then the improvisations of Yankee ingenuity write new legends of the A.S.C. in the field. Empty gasoline tins, hammered flat and cut to size, have made many a patch for bullet and flak holes. Said an A.S.C. general to bug-eyed factory engineers back in the U.S.: "Did you know that you could straighten a prop blade by wedging it in the bumper of a two-and-a-half-ton truck, then backing the truck until the kink was gone. ... It was done...
...doctors manage to function even behind German lines, secretly patch many guerrillas...
...part Father was satisfied with daily visits to the police station, where he set the captain right on the finer points of criminology and checked the mechanisms of the patrolmen's pistols. Ants worried him; he spent feverish hours tracking them through the house, out into the tomato patch, over the wall into the rose bed of the Women's Club. There he destroyed ants' nests and tea roses in one immense conflagration of gasoline-soaked rags. When not invited to take the chair of a particular committee, Father was likely to turn up and take...