Word: patchworking
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...that country,c to write critical pieces on the futility and criminality of war. Her anti-war pieces, which were deemed anti-nationalistic, subsequently made her a target for Croatian media and political figures. Ugresicc eventually left Croatia in 1993. She categorized her works as “patchwork fiction,” a combination of personal memoir, critical commentary, and fiction. Ugresic also told the crowd that the “luggage of labels”—how she referred to the literary market’s tendency to label writers based on their nationality?...
...bailout is just the beginning. Even if it works, that still leaves the job of making sure it never happens again. Congress needs to remake the 1930s-era patchwork of various federal agencies that oversee banks and financial institutions. "There's so much that needs to be done, so much work," Paulson said. "Some people want to say there's too little regulation. It's not that. It's just outdated, outmoded, ineffective. The architecture was put in place in a different era, and it hasn't kept pace with the evolving financial markets...
...RYAN J. MEEHANCrimson Staff WriterWalking down the staircase that leads to Eliot Street’s Twisted Village Record Shop, the first thing that commands the eye is a patchwork array of decals along the walls and ceiling. They bristle with dog-eared flyers, bumper stickers, and mascots from long-forgotten guerrilla marketing campaigns, in a kind of polychrome collage fit for a museum exhibit of ephemera. Like butterflies mounted behind glass, they’ve been taken out of their natural habitat, removed from the context of the streetlamps and mailboxes where they meant what they said, into...
...Army had just broken the back of Hitler's Wehrmacht and put Moscow in control of the Baltic states (annexed at the outset of the war), Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. Having watched Central Europe transformed by Soviet military power into a patchwork of authoritarian vassal states, Western Europe was only too willing to join an all-for-one military alliance with the U.S. and Canada to even up the odds in the event of further Soviet expansionism. Nor was it surprising that decades later, those Europeans who had actually lived under the Soviet heel would race...
This was evident when we ferried one mother, Medina Wago, with the body of her six-month-old daughter back to their village of Sedeguge. Medina told us Feyinae was the third of her many children to die. The fields of Sedeguge were a patchwork of bright greens and deep, moist browns. Inside the family hut were five full sacks of maize...