Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, breezy Carl Wakefield, San Francisco adman, sat down fuming and circularized Vice Admiral John Greenslade, Lieut. General John L. De Witt and Coast Guard Commander Roderick Patch: "Fifty-thousand Japanese parachutists could have landed on San Pablo Bay on that night, and a clear night it was, without detection...
...Hecht story concerns a tail-coat, bought from the tailor by Charles Boyer, and passing in turn to Henry Fonda, Cesar Romero, Charles Laughton, Edward G. Robinson, and Paul Robeson, ending up ingloriously on a scarecrow in a poor negro's corn patch. The coat brings happiness to some and serves as a jinx to others, but it travels merrily on its way, oblivious of all the trouble it is causing. The film is divided into five sequences, the first is marvelous, but by the end of the two hours, the audience is more than ready to say farewell...
Crews worked frantically to control the fire and patch the twisted deck. But more Jap planes caught up with the limping carrier...
Next the surgeon tunnels into the exposed muscle with a special steel dilator, twisting and turning until he has formed a canal in the muscle through which he draws the tube of skin. The bare muscle, which now encases the tube, is covered over with a patch of skin from some other part of the patient's body...
...attuned to Government Order L-85. Here, briefly, are the highlights of this Government ruling: No bias or dolman sleeves. No woolen evening wraps. No woolen evening dresses. A maximum of 144-inch sweep for evening dresses. No suit jacket over 25 inches long. No cuffs on suits. No patch pockets. No belt over two inches wide. No overskirts...