Word: quilted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Mission from Moscow. Just a decade after he marched away from the smithy, Josip Broz returned to Croatia, but not to blacksmithing. His job was to organize a metal-trades union. He had left Austria. He returned to the crazy-quilt kingdom of the South Slavs whose Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians would presently be held together in uneasy union by a tight little dictatorship headed by King Alexander II. Under the dictatorship only the Serbs supported the dynasty. Only tractable parties were legal. Trade unions were outlawed. As a Croat, a Communist and a trade-union organizer, Josip...
Federated Balkans. Beyond the hope of a federated Yugoslavia loomed the larger hope of a federated Balkans. If Yugoslavia had been a crazy quilt of related national stocks in precarious cohesion, the Balkans were Europe's craziest quilt of all. Seas and islands of nationalities as different as Serbs, Rumanians, Germans, Greeks and Turks washed around each other in a confusion that defied the drawing of political frontiers. Through the centuries bigger nations, practicing the policy of divide and rule, had kept the Balkans divided and conquered. But a new spirit was abroad. At last federation seemed feasible. Russia...
Young Home "had no profession. He never did a day's work. He became simply, on a lifelong, international, and really magnificent scale, the man who came to dinner." Always ready to help the children with their lessons or admire a housewife's new quilt pattern, he was taken in by families all over New England. He repaid hospitality liberally by dispensing "spirit prescriptions" to the ailing and smelling out long-lost relatives and title deeds...
...find out how U.S. doctors and civilians are taking it, TIME queried correspondents in medium-sized towns from coast to coast, got replies as varied as a patchwork quilt...