Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers matched the biggest total harvest they had ever known. On land diverted from corn and wheat under acreage allotments, farmers bring in crops - barley, soybeans, sorghums - that compete with corn and wheat as livestock feeds. Result: bigger corn and wheat surpluses. "As soon as they plaster a patch on one place," says an Illinois farm-organization official, "something squirts out in another...
...season long, the mercurial league lead has gone to the team best able to patch up its fundamental flaws (the Phillies cannot hit; the Redlegs are weak in pitching; the Dodgers are getting old; the Braves are injury-prone). Back in St. Louis, fans are betting already that the fast balls of Jackson and Jones and the two kid pitchers from Oklahoma have turned the Cardinals into the one solid team in the pennant scramble...
...even if the penalty amounts to $800,000 as it may, Farmer Harris will feel no pain. A fair-to-middling crop will likely yield him $1,200,000, plus his soil bank payments, or a profit of $600,000. Harris also has a 2,000-acre cotton patch near Fresno and a 1,000-acre field near Phoenix, both eligible for full price supports...
Last week Nasser sent his No. 1 military man, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, scurrying off to neighboring Saudi Arabia to patch things up with oil-rich King Saud. Earlier in the week, sitting before the cameras of Britain's Independent Television News-as Russia's Khrushchev did for CBS in the U.S.-Nasser sent an amiable grimace into several million British living rooms. "I'm sorry," he said, "about that period of bad relations between Britain and Egypt. We hope that both countries will work for good relations in order to be friendly again...
Smith College's Howard Rollin Patch, 67, for years one of the most formidable figures on campus ("Examinations should be written as if the students were under gunfire"). A Harvard Ph.D., Patch became an authority on Chaucer, was so identified with his hero that a student once greeted him, "Good morning, Mr. Chaucer." His composed reply: "Just call me Geoff." Looking, as one colleague put it, "like the president of a country-almost any country," erect, white-haired Howard Patch not only charmed and terrorized students ("they have to submit to the possibility of ridicule, stand up under criticism...