Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy's character-daubing attacks on people Pearson likes, McCarthy because of Pearson's character-daubing attacks on him. The action started before the entree, and it had a certain air of grandeur: in their line, Pearson & McCarthy are the two biggest billygoats in the onion patch, and when they began butting, all present knew history was being made...
...made up my mind to stop." Rose underwent an operation recently, and "I found that, for the first time in my 51 Novembers, I wasn't snapping back the way I should-that the ever lovin' elastic wasn't there any more . . . Three weeks after the patch-up job, I've still got a headful of fog and a skinful of ache...
...five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become an integral part of an infantry division: every division will have them. There will be only one thing to set them apart from other troops: they will wear the Ranger patch of World...
...after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays...
Methodist Parson Hiram Milo Frakes had ridden his pony into the patch of Kentucky wilderness cut off by Big Pine and Little Log Mountains to bring religion and book learning to the dirt-poor, illiterate mountaineers. When Scott Partin found that out, he gave the parson some land to start building his school and church on. Bill Henderson was another Kentuckian who helped. He chipped in a 65-acre farm because "he'd rather his children would have an education than to have the farm." Before he could see the settlement that Parson Frakes made of his land, Bill...