Word: patching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Showdown. On the morning of the showdown, Alben Barkley, wearing a black patch over his bad eye, called a caucus of Democratic Senators. For well over an hour he begged them to let the George Bill come to a vote first, pass it, and then vote on Henry Wallace's qualifications. Finally, he pulled out his ace argument. At this very moment, said he, Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge of" a historic international conference.* At such a time, he argued, the Senate must not slap down Mr. Roosevelt at home. Wyoming's dapper little Joseph...
Doughfoot in a Barrel. When Balck threatened to envelop U.S. Seventh Army units on the left, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch pulled back ten miles, leaving some Maginot Line positions to the Germans. They followed the withdrawal, pierced the new line, crossed the small Moder River. Then the Seventh counterattacked and the Germans backed up. They seemed to need reinforcements and they seemed not to be getting...
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, inspecting U.S. forces now under his command (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), visited the U.S. 104th Infantry Division, commanded by battlewise Major General Terry Allen, expressed admiration for the timber-wolfhead insigne worn by the 104th. Allen promptly ripped off his shoulder patch, gave it to besweatered, bereted Monty...
...least four divisions of Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army wedged warily into the Bavarian Palatinate. The Seventh's week of advance was more a careful pursuit than a driving offensive. The enemy fought small-scale delaying actions (the Americans took only 2,707 prisoners during the week) as they withdrew from vulnerable points in France to their Siegfried Line of forts and forests...
...this week Patch's spearheads had probed the Siegfried approaches and had touched German sore spots. Industrial Karlsruhe, across the Rhine, only some ten miles from the fighting front, came under U.S. fire...