Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing to draw a line on a neat, white map in a conference room. It is something else again to impose the line onto the patchwork of tiny vineyards, minute garden patches and chicken yards that speckle a Trieste hillside. Well armed with the tools of the surveyor's profession, a detachment of the border commission in charge of dividing Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia arrived one day last week at the two-acre plot of Luca Eller, a 65-year-old farmer of Italian extraction. The commissioners discovered that the line laid out in the Trieste agreement would...
...take the World Series were 9 to 5. After a long, loud summer, second-guessing Managers Leo Durocher and Al Lopez, the nation's sportswriters, smart-money boys and Sunday-afternoon bleacher jockeys all had an easy explanation: Cleveland's pitching was too good. Even with their patchwork infield, the Indians had won 111 games. How could they lose a short series...
...blessed with tranquil beauty than Flanders. The soft greys and greens of sand dune, marsh and meadow blend imperceptibly with the pale blues of the sky's rim, along an endlessly level horizon. Ornate old cities, which have known and outgrown greatness, nurse their memories amid a neat patchwork of fields where golden wheat and rye shimmer at each passing breeze. Turning idly in the same soft breeze, the sails of windmills urge the sluggish water along a network of canals which are the province's vital arteries, moving its traffic, draining and feeding its rich black soil...
...encounter on the way but a "pair of tender eyes which seemed to repeat the prophet's exhortation, 'Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.' " The trouble is, Sophia is already married to Christiano, an amiable young businessman whose soul, alas, "is a patchwork quilt." Though he would kill the man who touched his wife, Christiano is flattered when men try. This suits Sophia, a flirt with "an intuitive appreciation of solitaires." It also suits Rubião. To keep his welcome sweet at Christiano's, he lends the fellow money and even backs...
...National Economy but quit after a few months, was made Finance Minister in 1946 but quit in a matter of days-each time because he could not win support for stringent anti-inflation measures. Has since turned down all Cabinet offers because he disapproved of the long succession of patchwork coalitions designed to do as little as possible to offend as few as possible of France's variegated factions. "You cannot cauterize a wooden leg," said Mendès-France contemptuously...