Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wald likened science to a vast patchwork quilt full of holes which scientists are trying to mend. He emphasized the importance of free exchange of ideas in the scientific world...
Bernadotte put out his first long-term peace feelers to Jews and Arabs. The gist of his "suggestions": reshuffling of U.N.'s crazy-quilt boundaries, so as to favor Israel in the north, Arabs in the south; merger of the Arab areas with Transjordan; unlimited Jewish immigration for two years; an economic union of the two states. Neither Arab nor Jew accepted these first proposals. But neither did they reject them outright, and Bernadotte was ready to follow up with more suggestions. Said he: "I will carry on with the discussions as long as may prove necessary and fruitful...
...came by, bent over with the weight of his wife wrapped in a quilt on his back. Asked how she was, the old man whispered "Mo akan" (Too late), but very low, so that the little boy clinging to the woman's dangling hand should not hear...
...Crazy-Quilt. It was also a crazy-quilt of people in a dilemma. At Evansville, Ind. last week, a handful of anti-Wallace C.I.O. auto workers picketed the Memorial Coliseum where he was to appear. Some 2,000 of Evansville's population joined in. Hoodlums stormed the Coliseum's doors, slugged Wallace Campaign Manager C. B. ("Beany") Baldwin and two other Wallace coworkers. Police dispersed the mob. Cried Henry: "The blame for this violence lies with the press for giving misinformation." Inside the hall an uneasy audience of 500, most of them well dressed, settled back to listen...
...here too, suddenly, "like an exotic quilt thrown over a slept-in bed," summer covers the cemetery of the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros with plaids of buttercups, poppies and bluebells. Millions of birds and clouds of mosquitoes take to the air; and the warmed glaciers, calving with "that large utterance of the early Gods," emit the drifting icebergs which plague the waters of the North Atlantic...