Word: patch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surveyed the creaking, pre-Elizabethan cottage he owns next door to his gasoline station at Piccott's End near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he saw a depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley: "I am not a fanciful man, but when...
Most British newsmen agree that the royal family, now almost openly hostile to the press, is at least partly to blame. Royal public relations are handled through a Press Secretariat whose tight-lipped refusal to discuss even a Balmoral barbecue forces newsmen to patch up stories from gossip, invention and half-truth. Important royal events outside the palace, complain reporters, are usually handled by bumbling local officials. Only when newsmen threatened to boycott Princess Margaret's recent African tour in mid-trip was she allowed to make news by mingling with the natives, thus realize the tour...
...Patch Pass Defense...
...whine of the plane came closer, but visibility was too poor to let the crowd see it. Keeping his ship up in the flare-out, Pilot Howard was easing down toward the runway just over Farmer Joseph Philp's sprouts patch, 600 yards away. Suddenly he felt his wheels touch down-too soon. Ramming his throttles forward, he tried to climb skyward. At that moment the airport greeters had their first horror-stricken sight of the Vulcan, a monstrous shadow in the mists at the runway's threshold. It was in trouble. Pilot Howard passed the word, "Abandon...
...compost heaps in a Manhattan pretrial hearing. Her legal adversary was a sometime play producer named Luther (A Sleep of Prisoners) Greene, also something of an agrarian reformer, who claimed that Doris owed him $2,500 for applying his Greene thumb to her "tragically outmoded" 2,500-acre patch of flora in exurban Somerville. Flower Girl Duke countered that Greene was trying to make her "forget" a $1,797.45 suit she has brought against him for floral decorations grown on her farm and peddled in turn by him to Broadway shows. Doris was not irked by the petty cash involved...