Word: patch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippines in 1944. For eleven years, Seaman Kinoshita lived on lizards, frogs, fruit and wild monkeys in the jungles of Luzon awaiting the day when a victorious Japanese navy would come to rescue him. That day never dawned, but last fortnight, as he raided a jungle-side sweet-potato patch, Kinoshita was picked up by Philippine police. "When," he asked, "will my head be cut off?" Told that he would not be killed at all, but sent home a free man, Kinoshita grew very sad. Last week, deprived of a hero's death by a too-forgiving enemy...
Your picture story [Sept. 5] on American horses was beautifully done. But shades of Hambletonian, Goldsmith Maid, Maud S., Dan Patch and Greyhound, how did you ever forget the most populous tribe of them all, the standardbred...
...Rome, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, 567 became a member of the working press, supplying United Press with continent twice a week on "the international scene in general." For her first piece, Newshen Swanson sewed a new patch on a frayed theme: the U.S. male is a lousy lover. "Nobody can say I'm too young to know what I'm talking about," wrote Columnist Swanson, whose five marriages (three Americans, one Frenchman, one Irishman) all ended in divorce. The trouble with American men, said she, is that they have been so busy making money that they have lost "that...
...tense men at a periscope window kept their eyes on Sonic Wind No. 2, a squat, steel sled with the menacing look of a robot spider. Beneath its red-and-white-striped cab, a string-straight rail track ran across the shimmering heat of Holloman Air Force Base. A patch of blue water dammed up between the rails stretched toward the end of the line, 3,500 ft. away...
...midst of the elaborate picnic laid on by the leaders of Russia for foreign diplomats (TIME, Aug. 15), bald-polled Ivan Konev, commander in chief of the satellite armies, turned to his companion in the raspberry patch, the British minister. "The marshals are picking berries," said Marshal Konev, and pointed the moral: "The marshals have been turned into soldiers of peace." In case this seemed a little pat for the Western world to believe, the marshals went farther last week. The Kremlin announced that it would reduce the size of the Soviet armed forces by 640,000 men before...