Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gardening editor was booked solid for lectures. In Dallas, the Robin Road Cooperative Association (ten determined couples who gave each other garden tools for Christmas) got off to an early start digging in its borrowed acre-the women wearing the most beautiful slacks ever seen in a vegetable patch...
...Army sent a seasoned veteran to carry on the fight: tall, lean, 53-year-old Major General Alexander McCarrell Patch Jr. Born into the Army (at Fort Huachucua, Ariz.) West Pointer Patch had long been in command in New Caledonia, where he learned jungle fighting and taught it to his troops...
...listed. If you go over the upper side you will be in danger of being badly hurt by barnacles [and] of fracturing your ankles by hitting your heels against the bilge keel. . . . Jump into the water feet first; do not dive. ... If you have to swim through a patch of oil keep your head and eyes high and your mouth closed. ... If you have to jump from the ship into burning oil you may, if you are a good swimmer, avoid being burned. . . . Jump feet first through the flames. Swim as long as you can under water, then spring above...
...knew where the report originated. The dispatch to a London news paper from Switzerland indicated an Axis source. A New York Herald Tribune dis patch from London surmised that the suggestion came originally from Pope Pius XII. Said the London Catholic Times: "If a sound agreement could be reached for claiming Rome an open city, it would be welcomed by the mass of Europeans, but no such agreement has been announced to date and there is no evidence of one being negotiated by the Holy See." No earthly power could guarantee safety for Pope Pius if bombers ever swarmed over...
...City Falls. More & more, bright plywood replaced Warsaw's windowpanes. In the food lines, faces were sleepless and remote, and bitter quarrels broke out. Rulka saw a dead, horse in the street, stripped of its meat save for the haggard mask and stockings of hide. In a patch of grass at a street crossing, she found a little grave. At the foot was a glass with , two or three flowers in it. At the head was an amateur cross to which was thumbtacked a visiting card...