Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three days before, Vice President Garner, in khaki shirt and khaki pants, had been squatting on the front porch of his home in Uvalde, Tex., telling newsmen that the only thing that interested him was four setting bantam hens and his eight-acre "patch." Two months ago, just after his Presidential aspirations had gone up in cigar smoke at the Democratic Convention, he had gone to ground in Uvalde, and there he had stayed. When he was asked about his plans, and whether he thought of returning to his duties in Washington, he replied: "Tomorrow is only a day away...
...Flexner to make a study of prostitution in Europe, a job for which, Dr. Flexner protested, he was "absolutely without qualifications." Nevertheless, Dr. Flexner pitched in, conscientiously toured brothels and red-light districts in eight European countries. To his wife, Playwright Anne Crawford (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Dr. Flexner faithfully sent reports of his investigations. Excerpt (from an interview with a prostitute): "When I left, I gave her a few gold pieces. . . . She inquired very kindly: 'Is this all?' meaning obviously did I ask nothing more. 'Yes,' I replied. 'Why,' she said...
...every morning crowds of Latin-American delegates had already passed through the great sculptured doors of Cuba's $20,000,000 Capitolio, stood chatting in the lobby at the head of the long flight of marble steps. Only dark patch in the sea of white was the conservative blue business suit draping the lank frame of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. A long file of big beflagged cars moved slowly through the surrounding palm-shaded park, bringing more conferees to the red-carpeted entrance. By 10 o'clock committees were already at work in secret session...
...legal if not altogether convincing by a "Vote Da!" plebiscite, Joseph Stalin last week continued to nibble at the North. He persuaded Finland to yield a strategic, half-mile-wide strip of land in the Jääski region, north of Viipuri, and promised to return a similar patch elsewhere. More important, he exacted the right to transport military material across Finland. For the time being, this right was to be exercised only in fortifying the Russian treaty port of Hanko; but Finns-and Swedes as well-knew that a fateful precedent had been...
Something short of a masterpiece was Thunder Over Mexico, which Upton Sinclair and other backers got old Hollywood hand Sol Lesser to patch together from their cinematic mountain after Director Eisenstein quarreled with Sinclair and went huffing back to Russia (TIME, May 2, 1932). But U. S. radicals, who accused Sinclair and Lesser of sabotage, and other admirers of Director Eisenstein persisted in the belief that Critic Wilson was right. Their laments made the movie Eisenstein had originally projected as Viva Mexico the most celebrated incomplete work of art since Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. The news that...