Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mort Waldstein will open for the Crimson as he did last week, and Sophfor the 14-inning triumph, will be in the bullpen for any necessary patch work. Who the Blue invaders will send out to defend their cause is not certain, but they are expected to call again on Ted Harrison...
...scraped a few wing tips. But they had had no serious crackups, had been smooth and unhurried in the air. Also they made instructors' eyes pop at the way they could shoot. Diving at a tiny towed target and slamming away with fixed aerial guns at a little patch of white on the ground, the top Chinese gunnery student plunked in 45 out of a possible 200. At the toughest kind of firing, where ten in 200 is considered workmanlike, he had given an expert's performance. U.S. fellow students heard of it with respectful whistles. They also...
...suit? All right-but only one pair of trousers, shorter coat, no trouser cuffs, tails, vents, belts, pleats, tucks, bellows, gussets, yokes or patch pockets. Suits will use some 26% less cloth. Civilians will get only 10-20% as much new wool as they got last year...
Clothes for your wife? All right-but with the same kind of skimping as in men's clothes; no patch pockets, no matching wool cloth hats, bags, three-piece suits; styles will have to conform to a basic "silhouette"; no more rubber for girdles, brassieres or false bosoms...
Marianne Moore's poetry is a small museum full of such devotedly matter-of-fact observations. In What Are Years are reindeer, ostriches, paperweights, pangolins, college students, paper nautiluses, quartz-crystal clocks, butterflies, Negroes, France, speech, patch-box inscriptions, triskelions and juniper boughs-a partial list. These things Moore treats not as subject matter but as object matter; and she sees in their essential structure object lessons about the Creation in which man finds himself...