Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Recent international developments have made one thing clear about the nation's patchwork draft deferment policy: as time goes on, it will be incapable of handling the needs of the armed forces in a manner fair to prospective draftees. The manpower shortage is "more critical" than is generally supposed, according to Selective Service officials, and draft boards are dipping more and more freely into the 2-A lists--men deferred to finish their education--in order to fill their quotas...
...point to a bleeding wart and say: "That one's degenerating a little . . . Won't stop bleeding. Give me a little Novocain and take it off." The wound would be grafted with skin from Dr. Brown's belly or leg, which soon began to look like patchwork quilts...
...patchwork quilt day, a day of multi-colored squares, a day which means something different to every individual...
...troops finally took Shanghai in 1949, the Review hailed the city's "liberation," lavishly praised "the new democracy," and began demanding Formosa's "liberation" from Chiang Kai-shek's "henchmen." The Review's version of life in the U.S. became a red-and-pink patchwork quilt, sewn together from such dependably left-wing sources as the speeches of Howard Fast and George Seldes' news letter In Fact. Wrote the Review: "The United States, in the eyes of the Chinese people, has become the symbol of world reaction...
...Problems. In its 42 years, the Governors' Conference had become a useful invention. In round-table discussions and over friendly drinks, the governors swapped experiences, learned from each other's successes and failures. They tackled problems arising from shared water resources like the Colorado River, discussed the patchwork of state laws which make life miserable for interstate truckers...