Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commissar. There were many other pieces in the political crazy quilt. In Costa Rica, bumbling President Teodoro Picado had been shoved aside, and Communist Chieftain Manuel Mora was openly bossing the government show from Bella Vista fortress. Shrewd Manuel Mora gave his Communists guns, then held them ready in the capital. Campesinos and other "volunteers" were shipped off to fight the Ulatistas...
...Arabs planned uprisings, an economic blockade, concentrated attacks on outlying Jewish settlements and pinpoint attacks against the long exposed borders of the crazy-quilt Jewish state. The Arabs seemed resigned to the prospect of an armed struggle. They regarded partition in its present form as so outrageous that there was no alternative...
...showman began with a miserable fizzle called Corned Beef & Roses. Desperately, he rewrote it, renamed it Sweet & Low. Though it had Fanny Brice in some of the original Baby Snooks routines (which Billy wrote), it thudded again. Billy rewrote the show a second time, renamed it Crazy Quilt, and took it on the road. Billed as "A Saturnalia of Wanton Rhythm Featuring Exotic Divertissements," Crazy Quilt played to packed houses at almost every stop. In nine months, Rose recouped his $75,000 outlay and made $240,000 clear profit...
...sickening after each war to reconstruct the same old European crazy quilt. Of course this European unity must be entirely voluntary. Although its present divisions are killing it, Europe, the birthplace of Western civilization, does not wish to be-and must not be-"united" under any foreign ruler...
...Lincoln Reader is a kind of patchwork-quilt biography, expertly and tidily done. Editor Paul M. Angle,* a Chicago historian and bibliographer, has taken extracts from 65 authors, great and small, and worked them into a running narrative of Lincoln's life...