Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propped on the table, and in warm weather he unceremoniously stripped to the waist. Once, in Yenan in the presence of General Lin Piao, president of the Red Academy, he took off his trousers for comfort while studying a military map. He smokes incessantly and tends his own tobacco patch. In 1938, the Party Central Committee gave him a $5 monthly raise so he could buy more cigarettes. Between noisy puffs, he chews melon seeds or peanuts. Until recently, when his doctors made him slow up, he used to wash down his heavy meals with kaoliang (grain liquor). Since then...
...Four hundred men's clothing manufacturers, meeting in Boston, optimistically announced that they would dress U.S. males in gay plumage in 1949. Proposed innovations: nylon socks in rainbow colors, jackets with big patch pockets and matching belts, pastel shirts and two-tone belts with big "bold look" buckles...
...work out a revision of "Five Kinds of Writing," the well-worn standard text for the course. As far as fixing up English. A goes, they probably will have been wasting their time. For it will take more than the simple remake of a now-aging textbook to patch up the defects of the College's largest course, already far too unwieldly to teach anything past a few required fundamentals...
Beards & Matches. In the afternoons, he prowled around the base, dressed in a tan slack suit whose rayon trousers bore a conspicuous patch. Evenings, there was "paper work" (poker) in the commandant's white, jalousied house which serves as the Little White House. By 10 o'clock Harry Truman was in bed. Clark Clifford, who padded around barefoot sporting a three-day beachcomber's beard, explained contentedly, "We're getting more fun out of just sitting. My feet are getting so tough I can light a match on them...
Last week the department had a new hot potato. Potatoes from Canada, which also had a surplus, were flooding the U.S., underselling the propped-up domestic spud. In Portland, Maine, right in the nation's own potato patch, Canadian potatoes were about 40? a 100 Ibs. (15%) cheaper, despite a duty of 37½?; and 43? freight. Maine so far this season has shipped only 133 carloads of potatoes (v. 483 at this time last year), while Canada had sent 398 carloads into...