Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wilson captured the imagination of a war-shocked world with the promise of a just peace and a League of Nations to tidy up the international madhouse. He then shows how Old World hatreds and greeds, together with home-grown suspicions, turned Wilson's dream into a patchwork of drab compromise...
AGRICULTURE. No one is satisfied with the present patchwork farm program, and the Administration is preparing a new one. But not very many people are expected to be satisfied with it, either...
Grey clouds scudded across the autumn sun, and the largest crowd (62,000) ever to watch a college football game in Oklahoma shuddered in an even greyer silence. Out there on the patchwork turf of the University of Oklahoma's stadium, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame were doing the undoable. It was bad enough that they had the Sooners beaten, 7-0, that they were breaking the longest winning streak (47 games) in intercollegiate football history. Now, with less than two minutes to go they were firing long, dangerous passes in a bold try for another touchdown...
...together were mostly grandmothers, but they smilingly shifted furniture that would have given a stevedore pause. As each unveiled her best discoveries, the others clustered like birds. A Civil War soldier's shaving kit, with slide-out mirror, was admired for its ingenuity. Six people spread out a patchwork quilt, which some country lady had made from her husband's neckties a century ago, and debated the name of the pattern. Said the oldest hand decisively, "Steps to the White House." Price of the quilt, which must have cost many weeks of loving labor: $35. In general, prices...
...Many Cooks. Apart from technicians who thought they would qualify for the raises, nobody seemed very happy about the Wilson order. Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, onetime Secretary of the Air Force, rapped it as "patchwork." Less publicly, Pentagon brass agreed with him. Trying to solve the nagging re-enlistment problem with so skimpy a measure seemed like trying to bail out a leaky rowboat with a beer can. What the military leaders wanted to see was adoption of the newly released Cordiner report, a thoughtful pay-revision plan drawn up by a military-civilian advisory committee chaired...