Word: patchworked
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...danger of runaway inflation, they said to an anxious and puzzled nation, would be over by June 1947. Meanwhile, all that was needed was a little more reconversion patchwork. They got help from some Congressmen. The House will begin consideration of a bill to extend Paul Porter's OPA for another year, and authorize $2 billion for consumer subsidies. The Senate gave Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt $600 million to pass out in premiums for building materials...
...speak up; French Communists were too strong, and France too weak. The world's most powerful nation was represented in London first by U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes, a habitual compromiser, and then by Stettinius, a competent, sincere negotiator. But they expended their energies on conjuring up patchwork formulas...
...narrow ledge overlooking the sea at the southern end of Okinawa the two Generals whispered to each other. They knelt side by side on a patchwork quilt covered by a white sheet (the color of death). Ushijima's aide stepped forward, bowed, handed each General a gleaming knife. The knives had been half covered with white cloth, so that the aide did not touch the sacred metal...
...political carpenters, plasterers and plumbers would do for the old house remained to be seen. So far they had been chiefly partisans and leftists. But if they did not build for all men instead of political parties, all mankind instead of a social class, their work would be patchwork, their tenure, as history reckons time, brief. And the despairing inhabitants would probably ask the next crew to raze the old house to the ground and start building over again from the ground...
...Canadian troops, ready to drop from battle exhaustion, stumbled into 15th-Century Middelburg to find that Daser had paraded all his available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...