Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center of Maxine's villa was the swimming pool. She felt that the "purpose of the human body was to be displayed." "Lady C. wore a patch or two of yellow; Lady P. was older and less naked; Lord A. wore practically nothing...
When the sun dried a patch of sidewalk, Moscow children played hopscotch. Peasants brought the first pussywillows to the markets. Hothouses dispatched their first onions and radishes to hospitals and children's homes. In the zoo a baby hippopotamus was expected...
...Golf Association cut out a war pattern for golf clubs: let them combine golf with victory gardening by replacing part of the rough (not fairways or greens) with vegetable gardens. Westchesters swank Wykagyl Country Club went enthusiastically supererogatory, plowed up its first and second fairways and allotted a patch to each of 55 member families. Members plan to play nine holes each Sunday, spend the rest of the day gardening...
Here, in John Bull's tight little isle, where every available hand and bit of soil is producing food, U.S. and British troops are planting a cabbage patch. U.S. soldiers not yet abroad need not grin - they may soon be doing the same. Last week President Roosevelt said he did not see why troops in this country could not be furloughed to help out on labor-stripped farms...
...Hyser believes that the Army Dental Corps, "organized not as a rehabilitation agency but rather to take care of routine dental work," can hardly do more than a patch-up job. His solution is to set up some 40 clinics, each one fixing up 200 patients every six-hour day. Clinic personnel would include 75 dentists, 20 hygienists, six surgeons, four radiologists...