Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Presidential Press Secretary Joe, Short, besieged later for a clarification, did his best to patch matters up again: "It was a purely academic and hypothetical question and there is no amplification or comment on it." Truman, himself, did not elaborate. But next day, while telling 100 visiting Protestant editors that his press conference had produced questions ranging from "Genesis to Revelations," he grinned and said: "I don't know whether I gave them the right answers...
Blazing Floods. At 400 feet, however, just as the C46 was about to make a left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...
...There are always plenty of people getting married for the first time." Nelson has had 17 policemen married on his show (he got one speeding ticket fixed as a result), and four children have been named after him. He constantly hears from Bride & Groom graduates who want him to patch up a quarrel, find them a job or lend them some money. He is heartened by a recent survey of 1,100 Bride & Groom couples which shows that only twelve have been separated or divorced since the program began, that the majority claim to have no pressing problems, and that...
...atmosphere hot with the steam of seething tempers, the riven ranks of British Labor met last week in a parliamentary committee room to patch up their difference-or open the rift irrevocably. For once, Party Leader Clement Attlee had thrown his native caution to the winds. He came to the meeting armed with a resolution demanding that the rebel Bevanites come to heel, without reservation. They must support, among other things, rearmament. Bevan himself, in a speech in his own constituency of Ebbw Vale, had all but threatened to withdraw from the party if such a resolution were pressed...
...streamers, designed to decorate theater marquees, blossomed on the nation's highways as filling-station art, the stolid firm took it as a matter of course. Then a Middle Western mechanic reported that for the first time he was able to harvest a full crop from the strawberry patch next to his filling station. He gave all the credit to sunlight glinting off the bright streamers and frightening marauding birds...