Word: patchworks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...patchwork of mildly amusing reminiscences by one of Alec Woollcott's four nieces about her pleasantly eccentric family. Polly, the rebel, wanted one of the dog's bones and was willing to wear the dog's collar and live in his kennel to get it. Lynn Fontanne tried vainly to make an actress of Barbara. Uncle Alec disapproved of his nieces and insulted them, but entertained them with inappropriate magnificence on their rare visits to New York...
...much write his books as compose them out of the novels, poems, diaries, letters of the period he writes about. It is a tribute to his scholarship that he can quote chapter and verse for every phrase in them, to his style that the reading flows along with no patchwork effect. To bring writers and writing back to the main body of life, as they were in Longfellow's time, to link the struggles of artists to the daily work of mechanics and farmers, to fill the background of his books with the ordinary stuff of daily living...