Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambassador Peurifoy, in the U.S. on a visit, hastily flew back to Athens, tried again to patch up the quarrel between the country's two foremost men. There was danger that, without Papagos, the U.S.-trained-and-equipped Greek army-an important weapon in the West's defenses against Red aggression-might fall apart...
Strips of paper draped across a patch of ground near the South Korean town of Chunchon last week spelled out the words, "P.O.W.s-19-rescue." An Air Force observer spotted the sign and radioed an armored U.S. task unit. A short while later, three tanks rolled up to Chunchon to rescue 18 marines and a G.I. who were captured last December in fighting at Changjin Reservoir. The 19 had spent the last six months being herded from prison camp to prison camp. Except for the endless days and hours of forced marching back & forth over Korea's mountains, none...
...argue that, but your April 30 cover story on MacArthur is the epitome in reporting and intelligent analysis. Your presentation of the selfish political angles as well as the sound and honest elements of the whole affair is like a pine tree in a cotton patch . . . You have become the weight of balance on the scale of sensible opinion...
...Should patch a wall t'expel the winter's flaw...
Thirty Years with G.B.S., by Blanche Patch. Shaw through the eyes of a secretary who was never "swept away" (TIME, April...