Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admit the question presents terrific difficulties. I realize it demands courage. I believe you have that courage. ... I recommend the words of George Washington to the members of the Constitutional Convention. As you know, the delegates to that Convention originally were supposed merely to patch up the Articles of Confederation. . . . Happily, the delegates chose to be guided by Washington's advice: 'It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend...
...bridge and lookin' up while we was takin' a horrible dive bombin'. It wasn't a matter of lookin' up at the sky to see the Stukas, it was a matter of lookin' up at the Stukas to see a patch of sky. 'There's a bluenose [1,000-lb. bomb] comin' down two points off the starboard bow,' he says to the captain, like he was tellin' him there was a small school of flying fish ahead...
...country is very striking-rather like Salisbury Plain, only with very large patches of ten-foot-high scrub and a certain amount of forest. The Russians are unusually good at concealment. You would go along a patch of scrub and just catch something out of the corner of your eye, then find it full of men and stuff completely hidden from view...
...beginning of last week, 40 fledgling pursuit pilots from the advanced training school at Kelly Field (Texas) were trying their P-40 wings. At week's end, there were 39: fog-trapped Lieut. Robert E. Hetrick of Dimondale, Mich, tried to nose into a Long Island potato patch, overshot. Apparently his motor failed when he tried to recover, and he died in the crash...
...blowing hot on the nape of its neck, the Office of Production Management last week revised its organization. It had to. In the six months of its existence, OPM had become hopelessly complicated, endlessly tied up in red tape that grew around its acts like ragweed in a melon patch. Manufacturers seeking to get started on vital contracts had to fight their way through labyrinths of bureaucracy. For any broad-scale ruling they had to go to the purchasing division, then to production, then to priorities. The rulings had to be reconciled. In the process thousands of hours of vital...