Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Problems. In its 42 years, the Governors' Conference had become a useful invention. In round-table discussions and over friendly drinks, the governors swapped experiences, learned from each other's successes and failures. They tackled problems arising from shared water resources like the Colorado River, discussed the patchwork of state laws which make life miserable for interstate truckers...
...patchwork comedy with some time-tested, surefire slapstick sequences involving lions on the loose. These scenes, dragged in by the heels and worked to the bone, help to bolster a film whose authors apparently never rejected any gag that popped into their heads...
...University of Chicago (with Adler), to St. Johns College in Annapolis, Md. and to scores of other colleges. It had spread to thousands of classes for adults in The Great Books. It was a plan of study that had helped lift U.S. higher education up from the patchwork of specialties and superficials it had become...
...diking and channeling of foreign policy, a patchwork job and subject to inclement weather, was apparent in Secretary of State Dean Acheson's talks with individual newsmen, and with groups of businessmen, in Washington...
Gris's colors were on the flat side-a patchwork of plush green, stained walnut, grey felt and golden oak-but his forms were as many-faceted as a fly's eye. Until his death (at 40) in 1927, he was a master practitioner of cubism as well as its best spokesman...