Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles de Gaulle. The Presidency of the U.S. is a truly cincho job compared with running the chaotic political patchwork known as the French government. Successful execution of this formidable feat has rightly earned for De Gaulle a stature far above the various clowns, clods and posturing windbags whose incompetence as heads of state has served to keep the world in constant crisis since World...
...will be a somewhat patchwork outfit that takes the field today for Yale in the Elis' 79th football meeting with Harvard. A remarkably healthy squad until two weeks ago, the Bulldogs have been hit by a sudden rash of injuries that have played havoc with their three-team system...
...greens, golds, purples and rich browns had never seemed more luxuriant than this fall. They splashed across the plains and hills in patchwork squares and furrowed curlicues. To harvest their bounty, farmers arose at dawn, gulped down hot breakfasts, climbed onto their great machines and roared onto the fields. Hour after hour they worked, often far into the night. Day after day they labored, until the land was cleared of all but stubble. Then they returned to the fields to prepare them for spring sowing...
Roadblocks Everywhere. As nothing else, the sudden anarchy brought home to Brazilians the peril of their patchwork political regime. Because the army and conservative Brazilians considered Goulart a dangerous leftist, he was not allowed to succeed Quadros in the presidency until a parliamentary system was hurriedly devised to confine his powers. The confining proved so effective that neither Goulart nor Tancredo Neves, the Prime Minister with whom he shared office, could get anything done. When they did agree, conservatives in Congress blocked virtually every badly needed reform bill Goulart's government proposed...
...from a foam-rubber bus seat ("It's the best desk chair I've found") in Continental's Dallas head quarters, started out at 18 as a ticket agent in the Little Rock bus depot. In those days the U.S. bus business consisted largely of a patchwork of local companies that seldom traveled more than a few towns down the road. Recalls Moore: "In my first year a man wanted to buy a ticket to Dallas. I told him he couldn't get there by bus." But Moore learned quickly. In 1943 he bought Fort Worth...