Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, in a hopeful effort to modernize Brazil's patchwork economy, the U.S. and Brazil set up a joint commission in Rio to pass on rail, electric power, and other projects suitable for development loans. In the spacious cordiality of the hour, U.S. officials predicted that the joint commission's work would bring Brazil from $350 to $500 million in loans from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the World Bank. Last week, with only $122 million in such loans granted, the U.S. prepared to wind up the commission and send its members home...
Confusion & Patchwork. As for the approved schools, they are still floundering in confusion: they have never even decided what their applicants should know. "Prelegal and legal education are in fact divorced from each other . . . There is no attempt at synthesis . . . Anyone familiar with the huge offerings of fragmentized courses of a university must realize that the student is likely to come through this ordeal with an education that is little more than a patchwork...
...General lost his nerve--"Eisenhower, the crusader, developed into Eisenhower the patchwork politician, with all the parts glued together by his obvious sincerity and humanity...
...made fat, sensational headlines (see PRESS). Some dispatches made it appear as if the slow-moving old Hellcats were "guided missiles" (because they were un-piloted); that the age of "pushbutton war" had been ushered in. This jubilation was wildly off the mark. The Boxer experiments were, actually, a patchwork of relatively old techniques, far behind the modern technology of real guided missiles (rocket-or jet-propelled and guided by radar). Ten years ago, in World War II, the Navy itself had successfully used a pilotless plane, controlled by radio and aimed by television, in simulated attacks on a destroyer...
...Shall we trust the party which wrote that tragic record to win the peace? . . . Must we go on with patchwork, crazyquilt operations? Must we go on with one policy for Europe, a feeble policy for South America, little policy for the Middle East, and changing policies for Asia? Must we go on writing off the Far East at one moment and at almost the next finding our sons fighting and dying in Korea? Must we at one time woo the Soviets as though they could be trusted, and then fall into hysterical fear of them? You and I know statesmanship...