Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spencer passed beyond the submarine, firing slackened. A patch of water was alive with struggling figures, black dots surrounded by bright orange life-jackets, bobbing and pitching in the waves. The sub's conning tower was dented and broken. No life could be seen aboard. Waves washed over her decks. She was done...
...your imagination run not, Bill. Imagine that instead of muddy, gaunt lacrosse fields, you see acres and acres of golden wheat waving in the breeze, row after row of corn, patch after patch of tomatoes, and whatever else might grow in patches. And in every acre a sunburned, freckled Ph.D., toiling with scythe...
...faculty would love it, too, Bill. Kirtley Mather would be out there plumbing the sod for rocks, sort of an agricultural sapper in the van of the plow. And out beyond a potato patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History...
...front of Orient No. 2, no miners reported for the early shift. The whistle blew. "Let her blow," said a miner. "Sure, let her blow her head off." The miners were busy at other chores, mostly gardening. Said a grey-haired miner in faded overalls, spading his bean patch: "I hate to quit now. I got boys in the service and I realize what it might mean to the Government...
...lashed at the Poles. At week's end Ambassador Tadeusz Romer left Moscow for Kuibyshev en route to Teheran. U.S. Ambassador William H. Standley saw him off. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr gave him a bottle of Scotch. Then they turned to seeking a settlement that would patch up the break for the duration. On the urgency and merits of this issue, the U.S. State Department and No. 10 Downing Street were in complete accord: nothing must be allowed to create a final schism between Russia and the Anglo-American coalition; yet, if possible, the Polish Government...