Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week a patrol of rifle brigade troopers, accompanied by special branch officers and tracker dogs, saw shadowy figures rise and run for the edge of a rubber patch near the central Malayan town of Semenyih. They fired. One fell. Next day in Semenyih a handful of Communists who had given up identified the body of Yang Kuo. Said one, gazing down at their old master in murder: "We surrendered, and we still walk and see. Here lies former Comrade Yang Kuo, white-faced, pale and dead." British leaders were jubilant. Yang Kuo was the No. 2 Malayan Communist...
Last March, two Texas amateur archaeologists. Advertising Man WTilson Crook Jr. and Railroad Engineer R. K. Harris, found a peculiar stone spear point in a patch of charcoal-blackened earth a few miles outside Dallas. Near it were bones of now extinct animals: camels, horses, an elephant...
...nowhere, helped himself to a nice side of meat and decided that he had found a home. As it turned out, Old Yeller did great things for the isolated little family. He ran down rabbits and treed squirrels for the table. He helped keep coons out of the corn patch, and when a raging she-bear made for little brother, Old Yeller pitched into her with yelp and fang and held her at bay until the boy was rescued. He saved Travis from a herd of killer hogs, proved again and again that when the chips are down...
...psychiatrists are on call around the clock for all Russians. Bantered Bulganin: "I don't know. They haven't had me examined that way yet!" After an hour of such empty pleasantries, Host Bohlen escorted B. & K. out through a pet project of Mrs. Bohlen-a corn patch in the embassy's backyard. Somewhat full of corn himself, Khrushchev stepped right amongst the stalks, plucked at the leaves, advised Hostess Bohlen cheerfully: "These leaves need thinning...
...relief driver, but after 9½ hours, his nervous wife insisted that he turn the wheel over to their 36-year-old son Marvin. Ab jauntily downed two glasses of milk, was soon back at the wheel, in all drove for 16 of the 24 hours. Despite a broken patch of track which caused the car to swerve each time around and cost him minutes, Ab got himself another world's record: 2.841 miles at an average speed of 118.37 m.p.h. Then Ab drove the 112 miles back to Salt Lake City without incident. Jenkins, onetime mayor of Salt...