Word: swatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador W. Averell Harriman gave a cocktail party last week at his Moscow residence, Spasso House. His guests: Poland's exiled ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who had just come from London; Poland's Communist President Boleslaw Bierut, who had just come from Warsaw; and a swatch of other Poles who did not like each other. Drinks flowed. The party was a big success. Five days later the Polish factions surprised a world accustomed to Polish fractiousness: they had reached agreement and formed a government acceptable to all of the Big Three...
...neutral Spanish soil stepped French ex-Premier Pierre Laval in black felt hat and his invariable white tie. He was nervously puffing a cigaret. Behind him came his wife and two Vichy Ministers, Abel Bonnard (Education) and Maurice Gabolde (Justice). Laval's heavy baggage included expensive jewelry, a swatch of French banknotes, bundles of political documents...
...smooth-surfaced canvases were standard O'Keeffe: quasi-mystical, highly polished designs inspired by New Mexican landscapes and still lifes. There was the bald roll and wrinkle of creviced hills, Black Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain. There was the shock of a swatch of blue sky seen through the gape of sun-baked bones, Pelvis III. There also were canvases which seemed to represent nothing whatsoever in nature: skillfully colored symbolic forms that were sure to stir the imaginations of most gallerygoers...
When last seen, the insurgents were still headed toward the Nicaraguan border, in frantic flight. General Noguera had jettisoned his hat, his sword, and his valise, which contained a bugle, a swatch of silk underwear, a bottle of perfume...
...Fifth War Loan needed a shot in the arm. D-day had come and gone, spurring individuals to buy a vast swatch of E bonds. The B-29 raid on Japan sold several million dollars worth more, leading the Tokyo radio to explain that the U.S. bond drive was "one of the greatest swindles in American history." But now sales were lagging almost everywhere. So the Treasury Department razzle-dazzled a lukewarm public with more & more sex, sentiment and stunts...