Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Derby's Canon Francis J. Edmond agreed that burial requests are sometimes blasphemous: "One man left instructions that his body should be burned and his ashes scattered over his potato patch. That man was really trying to show his contempt for his own body...
More than 100,000 Soldiers participating in the Army Specialized Training Program at 209 colleges and universities in the United States will wear identifying shoulder patch insignia, the War Department announced yesterday...
...insignia will depict the sword of valor against a lamp of knowledge. The sword and lamp are in dark blue on a yellow, octagon-shape patch...
Editorialized the St. Louis Post-Dis patch, which backed Franklin Roosevelt in 1940: "Messrs. Dewey, Bricker, Taft, Vandenberg and other Republican hopefuls have been silent, ambiguous or restrained. . . . Yet no Missouri questionnaire goes out. . . . Is Willkie running so far ahead of the field for the 1944 nomination that Missouri Republican leaders . . . feel he must be killed off politically before that time...
...past six weeks Farmer Stiles has been rising an hour earlier than usual, just to poke around his parched 440 acres. Last week the pea vines were fading to white splotches on their poles. Tomatoes and beans were all that had been salvaged from the quarter-acre vegetable patch...