Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find out how U.S. doctors and civilians are taking it, TIME queried correspondents in medium-sized towns from coast to coast, got replies as varied as a patchwork quilt...
...book of the same name (TIME, May 5, 1941), the picture's somewhat redundant purpose is to make Americans madder at the Japs than they are anyhow. But just as human endurance has its limits, so does human credulity: the picture defeats its own purpose. Its grueling patchwork of cinematrocities is likely to make most cinemaddicts as mad at the film as at the Japanese...
...coast of France seemed to move toward us. Now it was below, a brown and green patchwork. Our Spitfire escorts had come as far as their gas tanks would permit. A moment after they left, the first attack came. On the intercommunication system a cool voice said into our headphones: "Enemy fighter at eleven o'clock...
Patches for War. The difficulties all stem from an economic system the advisers are not empowered to change. At best, they can only do a patchwork job on the facade of Persia. If they can make the patches stick long enough to get Persia's important job of war supply done, they will have earned their keep and the thanks of the Allies...
Clearly the liberal education we are anxious to defend is not the patchwork of Sanskrit, airplane salesmanship, and fraternity life that we have today. It is rather a non-existent ideal towards which at least some existing institutions are working. Our job is to clarify and solidify the ideal...