Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a blackjack. Two boys who had once run away said that, when caught, they were made to walk barefoot for 8½ hours while guards rode behind them in a truck. Other runaways' heads were shaved and they were put to work, barefooted and bareheaded, in a patch of bullheads (a prickly form of sandbur). At the end of 18 days in the August sun, their heads were blistered, and one boy had blood poisoning from a wound on his foot...
...examination table in Chicago's huge Cook County Hospital, a 70-year-old woman lay limply, pleading for death between long, painful gasps. Her fingernails were blue. She was critically ill of congestive heart failure. The woman's brother, a wizened little Irishman with a patch over one eye, stood beside the table explaining why he had let her go so long without medical attention. "I thought it would pass, and I didn't want to leave her," he said. "I wanted to keep her at home as long as possible." The cop who had driven them...
...professional diplomat, saw his nation's power and influence in Iran fall to the lowest point in half a century, and bore some share of the responsibility. Disliking and underrating Premier Mossadegh, he argued long and often with him, considered Harriman's mission to try to patch things up an unwarranted intrusion by the U.S., and made it plain that he thought Mossadegh could be starved into submission...
Rock-jawed Cinemactor John (Stagecoach) Wayne, 44, recently named for the second time by movie exhibitors as Hollywood's No. 1 box-office draw, announced "with regrets" on his sixth wedding anniversary that he and his Mexican-born wife, Esperanza Baur, had separated, but hoped to patch it up eventually...
...school chums or to patch up rifts...