Word: patching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind locked doors by Prime Minister Attlee and other party fathers, had apologized and promised not to do it again. But, said one Labor M.P.: "It's like the man who finds that his wife has been unfaithful. She says she's sorry, and they are to patch up the marriage and carry on for the sake of the children. But the honeymoon is definitely over...
...happened to be in it. Day after he was fined Letourner was arrested again, charged with creating a disturbance at Barney's Beanery, where his old friend worked. She had married the other fellow. That time, Letourner (said his lawyer) was just trying to patch things...
...shade and knit anew the patch of words...
Change of Heart. In the prisoners' barbed-wire stockade at Kalgan there was further evidence of a historic military phenomenon: the diminishment of morale among even the best soldiers when the road ahead is an ever steepening, rock-strewn patch, the enemy one's own people. For eight years, since he was 17, Wang Yu-ming had fought with the Communists' famed Eighth Route Army, had risen from the ranks to the post of deputy company commander and had survived four wounds in battles with the Japanese...
...cartooning is topnotch Disney-and delightful. While playing fast & loose with the well-known personalities of Brer Fox & friends, the animators have kept a faint flavor of the old Frost-Conde-Verbeck illustrations. Perhaps Brer Rabbit's happy romps in the Briar Patch do not look quite as gay and wonderful in 1946 as Joel