Word: swatchful
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...Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake box; Abe Lincoln's frock coat; the chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron's plane wing; a "Mr. Bones" skeleton puppet used in a vaudeville show; Jimmy Carter's hymn book from Plains, Ga.; and a tie box full of old gallstones...
...Atlanta Braves started wearing a symbolic green swatch of tape on their batting helmets Sunday and will do so until the case of the 21 slain or missing children in Atlanta is solved, a National League club spokesman said...
...drivers claim other advantages. Insists Jane Flint, a Washington advertising researcher who actually grew up in Detroit without ever learning to back or brake: "I feel I have more freedom than most of my friends, forever hopping into the car with a fabric swatch in their hands, driving the kids to the dentist when they could just as well have walked, driving back to the market to buy some forgotten item, picking up the kids from the dentist, back downtown again-this goes on all day long." Fortunately, says Flint, her children "don't have arcane tastes...
Outside forces, however, were more aggressively interested in the outcome. Oueddei was actively backed by his neighbor to the north, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who had previously seized a swatch of disputed borderland. Chad seemed to fit neatly into the Libyan leader's ultimate dream of a sub-Saharan republic. Habré, meanwhile, was less directly supported by France, as part of Paris' abiding policy of trying to maintain a forceful role in the affairs of the French-speaking former African colonies...
Still, there could be no denying that Iraq was in control of a 30-mile swatch of Iranian territory east of the Shatt al Arab, the 120-mile-long border waterway that empties into the Persian Gulf. There, on the ground, the rival forces were locked in battle at four critical locations...