Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busloads of Dutch Protestants who had trekked across the border. They had come, as crowds throughout the length of West Germany have come, to hear the man who has variously been called the "Modern Savonarola," the "Red Father," sometimes the "Black Goebbels." They waited before a little open patch in the square in which stood a single microphone and an empty margarine crate...
...said they in a joint communiqué, "were in full agreement that, in the event of aggression in Europe, the resulting conflict could hardly remain local in character." There was firm talk of British military aid for Belgrade, and Tito volunteered a broad hint that he would try to patch up the festering relations between his regime and the Catholic Church...
Arthur Godfrey planned to take sick leave (beginning May 4) from his CBS radio and television shows to have a surgeon patch up an old hip injury suffered in an auto accident 20 years...
...Grant Fairbanks. The ear, says Fairbanks, is quicker than the tongue, and words can be understood faster than they can be spoken. Determined to work the human ear to capacity, Fairbanks and his associates have invented a "Time Compressor," a tape recorder that can take brief samples of speech, patch them together electronically and get a result that hardly alters the sound of the original words. By changing the size of the samples and varying the speed of the recording, speech can be compressed as much as 70% before it becomes unintelligible...
...musically to streams from melting drifts. Many Vermont farmers had buckets out in their maple-sugar groves. Though Lake Erie is normally frozen solid far into March, the Nicholson Transit Co. freighter James Watt made a trial run from Detroit to Toledo last week, and found only one insignificant patch of drifting...