Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance for a calm non-partisan examination of our internal security problem has been lost. It vanished last Saturday when President Truman regretfully accepted the resignation of the Nimitz Commission. This group of nine outstanding civilians headed by Admiral Chester Nimitz was to study our crazy-quilt security program and make recommendations for uniform standards and procedures. It was sabotaged by a single senator, one who makes a practise of subordinating the nation's interest...
...swallowed his pride, and turned over financial control of his overextended empire to a board of regents headed by Manhattan Lawyer Clarence Shearn and Broker John W. Hanes, former Under Secretary of the Treasury. For Hearst himself, it meant a cut in his reckless spending; for his crazy-quilt domain it meant consolidations, ruthless budget cuts. One night in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, Marion Davies did her bit: she calmly wrote out a check for $1,000,000 and handed it across a table to W.R. Choking, Hearst told her: "Some day, Marion, I'll make...
...Courtin' Time" is a patchwork-quilt of a musical. Parts of it are excellent--for instance, George Balanchine's choreography, and the lyrics and music of Jack Lawrence and Don Walker. But at the same time the show has some of the most bideous costumes and scenery, by Saul Bolasni and Ralph Alswang respectively, that have ever been seen in these parts; William Roos' book is only occasionally funny and seldom original; and many of the performances are below par. The result is a show that has its bright spots but is often tiresome...
...More than a billion dollars a year could be saved by standardizing the industry's crazy quilt of odd sizes of materials. ¶ Foundations required for one-story houses are far in excess of any real need. ¶ Practically every small house is structurally overdesigned (i.e., wastes lumber). ¶ Standard, prefabricated plumbing assemblies could save millions of pounds of pipe and millions of man-hours now wasted piecing together special assemblies. ¶ Ceiling heights and sill heights could be further standardized so that lumber and wallboard producers could supply materials precut to fit. ¶ Millions of pounds of copper...
Seagrave did not flinch, but suddenly he looked older than his 53 years. For almost half his life Surgeon Seagrave had been giving medical aid to Burmese peasants, and then a crazy-quilt civil war, spreading around his hill-country hospital, had tangled him in bitter national rivalries. A Burmese reporter asked him for his reaction to the verdict. He replied: "Whatever some few do to me, I want you to know I still love the people of Burma." He added: "I sincerely hope the American people will not judge the people of Burma by the actions...