Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly empty beer glass on the table and brought his mind back to the problem. This time he made proper allowance for the slippery patch of beer in the secondary, and the quarter spun through the craftily placed defensive team of dimes and broke into the clear for a long gain. Coin-spinning was a real art, he thought...
Secretary of State Acheson almost got rid of it last January when he stopped American aid to Chiang. It looked for a time as if we might manage to patch up our Asia policy with Point Four aid and other positive measures, and escape the worst consequences of our Chinese bungle...
...gain that was Robert Lovett was offset, at least in part, by the loss of one of the nation's most effective diplomats. Tired out and in bad health, wearing a black patch over the eye he injured by the barb of a salmon fly while fishing in England, 56-year-old Lewis Douglas called at the White House last week and resigned his post as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. After he finished winding up his affairs in England, Lew Douglas was going home for a long and well-deserved rest...
...move. I climbed a small ridge with them and watched what they were going into. Inchon blazed against the darkening sky, and the air over the city was choked with fumes and cinders. But in the far west the brightness of the setting sun painted one last patch of sky a peaceful, soothing yellow. A Marine chaplain standing on the ridge with me looked first at the sunlit sky in the west, then back at the smoke and fire around us. "Heaven on one side," he said slowly, "and hell on the other...
...hungry heart. Wrote Van Gogh in one of his last letters: "I have just painted that red and green vehicle in the courtyard of the inn ... a simple foreground of grey gravel, a background very very simple too, pink and yellow walls, with windows with green shutters and a patch of blue sky. The two carriages very brightly colored, green and red, the wheels -yellow, black, blue and orange...