Word: swatch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are no bad boys," said Father Edward Flanagan as he set about building Boys Town on a swatch of Nebraska prairie back in 1917. His goal was to establish a refuge for homeless boys, many sent to him by state welfare agencies. Over the years a stream of tattered urchins found their way along U.S. Highway 6, which cuts through nearby Omaha, to Boys Town. In 1938, a wind-battered waif in the movie Boys Town made the place part of American folklore. Arriving at the doorstep with an injured lad slung on his back, he announced to Father...
...into national prominence as the mockingbirds of the American aviary. When they were around, no peacock, no eagle was secure. In their Broadway show, An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, they did scenes in the style of O'Neill, and Batman, Proust, Pirandello and Noel Coward. Each swatch of material had a shiny button?as when Nichols, playing an English dentist, leans over his beloved patient: "I knew even then that I loved you. There, I've said it. I do love you. Let's not talk about it for a moment. Rinse out, please...
...tied a swatch of lace around her belly, a big bow in back, and went to play in her sandbox...