Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best I've seen, and the color photos of Japanese gardens are superb. I was swept with sentimentality when I saw the reproduction of the moss garden of Kyoto's Saihoji monastery. While stationed at Johnson Air Base, near Tokyo, I used to know a patch of wood that resembled this garden. G.I.s living in my barracks walked through it to reach the service club. On the rainy, magic-like mornings of spring and summer, the spot was like another world. Most of us will never see Japan again, and many thousands of veterans, I'll wager...
...world's end but the beginning of the future is mirrored here, for rising in that ancient, sandy patch is an orchestration of new sounds hammered out by an instrumentation unknown anywhere else in the free world. The solo tone of an old-fashioned foghorn is overcome by the shriek of liquid oxygen as it pours under high pressure through valves and pipes. Clanging chords of hammer on steel, the humming sostenuto of machinery, the blip-blip rhythms bouncing onto radar screens from a network of grotesque antennas-the counterpoint races on in time to a thousand clocks, paced...
...patch the dike of Communist unity, he charged off to Prague, to East Berlin, to Bucharest, received one satellite delegation after another in the Kremlin. He offered loans here, concessions there. "You like workers' councils? Take them. We won't criticize you," he said in a speech to the Czechs...
...Twirl. In Brawley, Calif., Farmer W. I. Fifield complained that a man had helped himself to three big watermelons from his patch by coming in, scooping them up, taking off in a helicopter...
...experiment say that their purpose was to study the high atmosphere by injecting artificial meteors into it and observing their behavior and the light generated by them. This explanation has its elements of truth, but the experiment demonstrated in addition how easy it would be to fill a selected patch of space with deadly, speeding particles...