Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modernizer Coghill was too much of a poet to follow the patchwork method, i.e., simply to insert modern words where the old ones are unintelligible. He kept Chaucer's rhyme schemes, except where they no longer rang true to the modern ear. And he concentrated particularly on reproducing the lively "tone of voice" of the 14th-century original-by the seemingly paradoxical method of making the verses sound as much like 20th-century conversation as possible...
...Patchwork Fences. Western Europeans are balking. At Strasbourg, visiting U.S. Congressmen and Senators had voiced crotchety impatience at Europe's failure to dash off a constitution and proclaim a U.S. of Europe (TIME, Dec. 3). Dwight Eisenhower spoke impatiently of Europe's "patchwork territorial fences...
...fight, his left eye clamped tight, his right slashed, his lips swollen and his body a patchwork of welts, Golden Boy was a slightly tarnished matinee idol. Carter had also taken a beating: a cut over his eye took seven stitches, and may keep him out of action for a year. The $32,000 purse, most lucrative of his obscure career, would help heal the wound. But more important to Jimmy Carter was his title. In his first defense of it, he had come through like a real champion...
Mather said that only one copy of the measure was available to members of the House. And this was a "patchwork affair pasted of sheets of paper. some of which were typed and some in longhand...
Today, the Detroit of Henry Ford is a great patchwork of races and nationalities-Hungarians, Poles, Greeks, Negroes, Chinese. To this polyglot gathering, in World War II, were added workers from Kentucky and Tennessee, dubbed "hillbillies" by their neighbors. Oldtime Detroiters blame them for some of the ugly race tension which erupted once and might again. Restive and dynamic, Detroit has all the problems of a city which, in a half-century, has increased sixfold...