Word: patching
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...five officers and no men of each company complete their training, they will be shipped out to become an integral part of an infantry division: every division will have them. There will be only one thing to set them apart from other troops: they will wear the Ranger patch of World...
Methodist Parson Hiram Milo Frakes had ridden his pony into the patch of Kentucky wilderness cut off by Big Pine and Little Log Mountains to bring religion and book learning to the dirt-poor, illiterate mountaineers. When Scott Partin found that out, he gave the parson some land to start building his school and church on. Bill Henderson was another Kentuckian who helped. He chipped in a 65-acre farm because "he'd rather his children would have an education than to have the farm." Before he could see the settlement that Parson Frakes made of his land, Bill...
...nearly empty beer glass on the table and brought his mind back to the problem. This time he made proper allowance for the slippery patch of beer in the secondary, and the quarter spun through the craftily placed defensive team of dimes and broke into the clear for a long gain. Coin-spinning was a real art, he thought...
Secretary of State Acheson almost got rid of it last January when he stopped American aid to Chiang. It looked for a time as if we might manage to patch up our Asia policy with Point Four aid and other positive measures, and escape the worst consequences of our Chinese bungle...
...gain that was Robert Lovett was offset, at least in part, by the loss of one of the nation's most effective diplomats. Tired out and in bad health, wearing a black patch over the eye he injured by the barb of a salmon fly while fishing in England, 56-year-old Lewis Douglas called at the White House last week and resigned his post as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. After he finished winding up his affairs in England, Lew Douglas was going home for a long and well-deserved rest...