Word: quilting
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...good eye, he didn't mind. He lifted her in his arms and put her in his buggy and drove her out for a ride. Parked out beside Lake Pontchartrain, he asked her to marry him. She winced; then, without saying anything, she threw aside the quilt that had covered her lower half. From the waist down, she was a fish. She dived into the lake and swam...
...were mostly grandmothers, but they smilingly shifted furniture that would have given a stevedore pause. As each unveiled her best discoveries, the others clustered like birds. A Civil War soldier's shaving kit, with slide-out mirror, was admired for its ingenuity. Six people spread out a patchwork quilt, which some country lady had made from her husband's neckties a century ago, and debated the name of the pattern. Said the oldest hand decisively, "Steps to the White House." Price of the quilt, which must have cost many weeks of loving labor: $35. In general, prices were...
Unless state politicians produce "bold imaginative party leadership," Williams foresaw "a picture of frustrated scatteration of local governmental jurisdiction, clogged highways, polluted water and air, and crazy-quilt development...
TIME captions U.N. Delegate Knowland as "a bulldozer in the forest" on the question of sanctions for Israel. Knowland is urging consistent application of principles of international justice and morality to all nations alike; Dulles and Eisenhower have erected a crazy-quilt patchwork of inconsistency in foreign policy, and Knowland will lead them out of the woods if they will only stop and listen...
...Small Part." Behind the confusion lay not only the close election but a crazy quilt of law. When Rhode Island's 1,014 voting machines were opened election night, three-term Governor Roberts led by 207 votes. But when absentee ballots from servicemen, civilian travelers and shut-ins were counted two weeks after election, Republican Del Sesto took the lead. With a final tally of almost 390,000 votes counted, the board of elections declared Del Sesto the victor by 427. Unwilling to have the office pass out of Democratic hands after 16 years' continuous control, Roberts ignored...