Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This diplomatic incident was reinterpreted last week by the German in question. Receiving newsmen, he proved to be a middle-sized battler with an adhesive patch on his forehead. He introduced himself as Dr. Karl Becker, 42, metal-type salesman, and admitted protesting to the café management that it was unpleasant to hear an English tune repeated. He said he had asked for a German waltz and that Mr. Earle, unknown to him as the U. S. Minister, had then called him a "dirty Nazi" several times and finally struck him with a bottle. Dr. Becker said...
...Spanish chamizal means brush patch, and a 600-acre strip of previously Mexican brush was left low and dry on the U. S. side of the river when the Rio Grande changed course after a flood in 1864. In 1894 a Mexican who owned part of the strip claimed it was Mexican territory and for years boundary commissions argued Mexican claims, U. S. counterclaims. In 1911 a Canadian arbitrator ruled that the international boundary followed the course of the river as it was in 1864, but where that might have been, no one knew for sure. So Chamizal has stayed...
Jubaland is the name of a real place: a 36,000-square-mile patch of African wilderness inhabited by some 130,000 black Somalis who raise scraggly cattle and camels. Until 1925, Jubaland was a province of Britain's Kenya Colony, but in that year most of it was transferred to Italy. Last week Britain very nearly had it back again-and was set to take a little more. By last week, British and South Africans had chased the Italians as far as the Juba River, which before the transfer marked the boundary between Italian and British colonies...
...successes on land (see p. 36) and sea (see p. 30) in the Mediterranean area had been brilliant. But the British had not relinquished their conviction that this time the great nations would have to hand in their final proofs not in Africa but on or near a little patch of islands hard by the shoulder of disproven France (see below). They still expected an all-out attack at home...
Asked last week in Washington whether accepting Japanese mediation was not equivalent to letting a fox arbitrate between two rabbits in a cabbage patch, Thai Minister Mom Rajawongse Seni Pramoj replied: "What would you do if you were a rabbit...