Word: patch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chauffeur-driven Mercedes from the state motor pool. Farm land is almost totally collectivized, and most peasants are virtually paid off with a lek and a promise. Tirana has a TV transmitter that broadcasts to a total of 200 TV sets owned by party officials. Albanian workers patch holes in their trousers with bits of vulcanized rubber, but in the new "jet class" "the men wear Italian-cut suits, and the girls have flaring cocktail dresses...
...ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted by the larger scope of Washington. Both Alford and Faubus would campaign against Fulbright by calling him a one-worlder who has traveled altogether too far from the pea patch. Already, Fulbright is known caustically as "the Senator from Timbuctoo...
...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
...performance and some sharp wisecracks, e.g., "You are a disgrace to the Negro profession." The plot hinges (and the hinge often creaks) on an attempt to trick Cap'n Cotchipee out of $500 so that Purlie can buy back Big Bethel Church and "preach freedom in the cotton patch...
...been converted to the production of "substitute food"-a ground-up mixture of hay, grass roots and other plants. Elsewhere, factories in need of spare parts or raw materials are standing idle. Families are now rationed to 2½ ft. of cotton cloth a year-"enough to patch my pants," growled one refugee who fled to Hong Kong. Faced with a leather shortage, there is a desperate search for new material to make shoes. One Dairen factory is trying to make shoes from fish skins...