Word: patch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With pastepot and pencil. René Mayer tried to patch the twain. He and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hurried across the Channel to see what the British could offer to placate the German-wary French Socialists. Britain stuck to its decision to stay out of EDC, but was willing to promise its "continued full support" to the European Army. And Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that when he visits Washington next week, he will ask the U.S. to join Britain in a pledge extending NATO's 20-year guarantees (which include the stationing of their troops on the Continent...
...first protected settlement, Governor Tri chose Dong Quan, 55 miles south of Hanoi. A 300-acre patch of land surrounded by waterways, in the midst of thickly populated ricelands, Dong Quan is ideally located for defense as well as for village commerce. Within six months, 1,000 Viet Nam peasant families (about 10,000 people) will be brought in from 25 surrounding villages. The farmers will still work their old fields by day, but at night they will sleep in the town under protection of a strong Viet Nam militia. The plans for Dong Quan include a Christian church...
When a Southern novel rolls off the presses, it is an odds-on bet that it will land either in the dark bog of Gothic violence or in the moonlit magnolia patch. Ovid Williams Pierce's The Plantation does neither; it is a first novel of grace, style and quiet excellence...
Creative Abdication. The "we" are 4,500,000 tribesmen who speak such languages as Dagomba, Akan, Ewe and Ga and are scattered across a rectangular patch of jungle, swamp and bushland that juts into the westward bulge of Africa, north of the coast that was once called the "White Man's Grave." Seven out of ten are illiterate, more than half believe in witchcraft, yet the happy-go-lucky Gold Coasters have been chosen by Imperial Britain to pioneer its boldest experiment in African home rule. In 1951 the British gave the Gold Coast its first democratic constitution; last...
...sunny. He and Urmilla were desperately poor and abysmally ignorant. In Barataria they slept on sacking on the floor of their leaky hut, sold their milk and vegetables in the slum neighborhood where they lived, and tried to behave like grownups. For Tiger, that meant working his tiny patch of land, getting drunk now & then on rum bought on credit at the store of Tall Boy, the Chinaman, and occasionally beating up Urmilla. For Urmilla it meant doing the primitive housework, delivering the milk, worshiping Tiger, and having babies. Everything might have gone well enough in picturesque squalor if Tiger...