Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only result of their efforts thus far, however, has been several peculiarly-shaped, slightly perforated pieces of multi-colored material, very useful for the making of patch-work quilts, but not good for much else, according to Charles P. Berger, Jr. '41, vice-president of the club...
Cupped in hills, just a mottled dun patch from the air, lies Harar, Ethiopia's second city. After miles of rocks and dust elaborated only by anthills and scrub, after more miles of hills ugly with boulders and cactus, Harar is a welcome sight. It is an ancient city state, founded by Arabs From across the Red Sea, rich in a peculiar hybrid culture expressed at one extreme by thatched roofs decorated at their pinnacles with bright enameled chamber pots, at the opposite extreme by minarets of the rigid Moslem faith. It is a community of ruinous houses girdled...
...Turks would treat any attacker to a first-rate shindy. European Turkey, the small patch of land north of the Dardanelles hinged on Istanbul, is divided from Bulgaria by ranges of formidable hills. In them the Turks have spent four years maneuvering extensively. They also have two fortified lines: the Maritsa Line, running parallel to the river of that name from the Aegean to Edirne (Adrianople) and from there to the Black Sea, and the Chatalja Line, about 20 miles north of the Bosporus. Behind these run The Straits. To man her defenses Turkey has an Army of about...
...surgeon finally decided to take a number of small pieces of skin from between the lines of the tattooing, leaving the designs intact. In this way, he got enough for a satisfactory skin patch behind...
...brush patch today, Chamizal still finds it hard to live up to the valuation of $50,000,000 arbitrators set on it 34 years ago. In it stand the new $165,000 Bowie High School and a new U. S. Customs House, but more prominently a red-light district, a small stockyard and any number of ratty firetrap tenements. To Deputy Pérez' oratory, the reaction of city-proud El Pasoans was: "Wish to hell they would give it to Mexico...