Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comforting to know that all the gold bricks, latrine lawyers, sick-call specialists can line up for their $120 a month. As an ex-member of the expendable 106th Division, who was stupid enough to find himself overseas fighting for somebody's turnip patch, and to lose a leg, how do they...
Iran's more apoplectic nationalists do not like the way U.S. Troubleshooter W. Averell Harriman and Premier Mohammed Mossadeq got .together to try to patch up the oil crisis. Last week the nationalists accused Mossadeq of making too many concessions to resume negotiations with the British. The fanatically nationalist organization, Fedayan Islam, one of whose gunmen killed Premier AH Razmara last March, reportedly threatened Mossadeq's frail life. One day last week Mossadeq walked into the Parliament building to explain to a Senate session why he had agreed to negotiate once more. Said Mossadeq, his voice quavering...
Emir Abdullah, meanwhile, worked hard to transform Jordan, an ungainly, rocky patch of land, into a kingdom. For two years he lived in a tent. On the tent site at Amman Abdullah later built his palace. He ruled as an absolute monarch, but the poorest Bedouin could come to plead with him at any time. He once spent a whole day personally tracking down a rascal who had made a poor woman pregnant...
Viewed from the canyon's high rim, the dam looks too small to create, as it will, a patch of mottled green land nearly as big as Connecticut. But all modern irrigation dams look small when compared with what they do. They accomplish their ends by geographical judo, playing on the weaknesses of their rivers...
...complete lack of affectation have won everybody." Back home the New York World-Telegram and Sun agreed: "After some of the dames who've represented American womanhood in Europe's salons and saloons, she must be like a breath of air straight from the clover patch . . . We do not want Europeans to think all our women do is go around marrying Moslem princes and staging big maternity exhibitions, like Rita [Hayworth] did. Nor do we wish our dolls generally to get a reputation for flirting with bullfighters, as Ava [Gardner...