Word: patch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pork & Potatoes. "A man's set up in life," says an old Newfie tag, "when he haves a pig an' a punt an' a potato patch." Through most of their history, Newfoundlanders have not had much more than these basic needs. They went out to the grounds and fished for cod. Some of the cod they ate themselves, with "crunchin's" of pork and potatoes. The rest they sold for cash to buy sugar, tea, wool for their homespun clothes, and an occasional keg of "screech" (Newfie...
...glittering patch of quartzite, high on Sheguindah Bay Hill, was just the thing to catch an archaeologist's eye. Knowing that Stone-Age Americans made primitive tools from the easily workable material, Thomas Lee, a dedicated digger from Ottawa's National Museum, scrambled up the rocky slope on Lake Huron's Canadian shore to have a look. Half an hour later, he was poking and prodding one of the richest diggings in North America. The forest floor was dotted with crude knives, scrapers, and quartz chips. "I felt drunk," he said. "It looked as though the Indians...
...wheel of Nixon's own fortune carried him from Whittier (he graduated second in his class) to a scholarship at Duke University's law school. He lived with three other students in a shack in a wooded patch a mile and a half from the campus...
...Patch up the blistering feud between France and Germany over the coal-rich Saar which the French control and the Germans covet...
...Like Bones." On paper, Compromiser Sparkman looks like a good choice in the Democratic effort to patch up a North-South compromise. In fact, the choice of Sparkman has had little effect so far on the party in the South. Dissident Southern leaders, mildly pleased by Stevenson's nomination, tend to be contemptuous of Sparkman. The basic Southern objection to him is clearly expressed by a supporter of Georgia's Herman Talmadge: "Sparkman is as bad a left-winger as the rest, except on the civil rights issue." Says Herman himself: "Sparkman was just a bone tossed...