Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prime mover of a howitzer. At an enemy roadblock. Dean's aide and his interpreter were wounded. Finally the battered motorcade was stopped by a stalled truck which blocked the road. Dean ordered the vehicles abandoned, and led the men on foot across country into a bean patch. That night, as they worked their way south into the mountains. Dean dropped behind to get water for a badly wounded man. His aide. Lieut. Arthur Clarke, waited in vain for him to return. Three days later. Clarke and his party reached the American lines...
That night they moved on. A police limousine and two motorcycles stopped on the road; the police opened fire as the Czechs ran into a patch of woods. The Vopos surrounded the patch with searchlights and combed it with machine-gun fire. Svejda was hit. The other three wanted to take him along, but the wounded man said: "Leave me here. Save yourselves...
...junk the most inequitable personal income tax and all the other patch-quilt federal taxes and try out a simple 100% sales tax at the manufacturers level? This would amount to a 50% tax at the retail level and yet would bring in revenues of $80 billion...
...Communists are stronger than anywhere else in India, they already hold 45 seats of the 140-man state legislative assembly, and one drought might tip the political scales in their favor. But Nehru, a canny man when it comes to fighting the Communists in his own country, managed to patch together a coalition between his own Congress Party and a few independents that would give his side a handy majority in Andhra; he located the state capital at Kurnool, far from the Communist pressure groups of the seacoast; he persuaded respected, 85-year-old Tanguturu Prakasam, who quit the Congress...
...journey to Harvard this Saturday, try the Colgate hello tradition in the Harvard Yard. If you get a return hello he doesn't go to Harvard. The Harvard Yard, in case you can't find it, is that patch of grass--jokingly called a campus--which is surrounded by buildings built before the Civil War and looking as though most of the war was fought in them...