Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrangled among themselves, divided and subdivided their country into tiny principalities. A great hero, Fa Ngoum, united Laos in the 14th century under the name of the Land of the Million Elephants and the White Parasol. But when France made it a protectorate in 1893, Laos was again a patchwork of small states...
...have Wilbur Mills and his committee fallen that House wags are calling it the No-Ways & By-No-Means Committee. The prospects seem dim that Mills will be able to recapture firm enough control to carry out his grand design of re-codifying the nation's patchwork of tax laws. And hardly anyone in the House of Representatives still regards Mills as a potential Speaker...
...though she should not have to be told that "Out, damned spot!" requires four syllables, not three). Her critics should remember that one can do very violent things in one's sleep; and that Lady Macbeth's mind has disintegrated and is tormented by a jagged and disordered patchwork of horrible thoughts, echoes, and memories. (Because Lady Macbeth is in an abnormal state, Shakespeare here followed his usual practice of clothing abnormality in prose--even though it meant making her the only one of his great tragic personages whose final speeches are not in verse.) Yes, Miss McKenna knows what...
...when expiration of an Administration recession law will drop 320,000 workers-who have already used up their regular jobless pay -from special federal unemployment compensation lists. Hoping to do more than extend the emergency legislation, Mitchell has spelled out a plan for basic revision in the present patchwork of state compensation practices, all financed by the 3% U.S. payroll tax. By setting stiffer standards under which states qualify for their lion's share of this tax, Mitchell hopes to lengthen coverage to a uniform 30 weeks at half pay for the average worker who loses...
Segni's critics say that his chief attraction, aside from his kindly personality, is his scrupulous avoidance of vigorous action. But his patchwork Cabinet may be around awhile nonetheless. Among his fellow politicians he is known as "the cracked vase"-an allusion to an Italian proverb which says that a cracked vase often outlasts an uncracked one because everybody handles it so tenderly...