Word: patch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obsession, Leda becomes bored, is seduced by a commonplace Casanova, Silvio's barber. In a climax of selfdiscovery, Silvio realizes that his wife has been unfaithful, that he is a failure as a writer, and that most of their troubles are his own fault. Humbled, he hopes to patch up his marriage: "To accept my status as a human being ... a decent fellow . . . modestly conscious of his own limitations ... the lover, and the beloved, of a young and beautiful wife...
...first concern of the Skiman. The effect should be that of cosmopolitan carelessness. It will be noted that only the amateur Skiman lets ski-two tickets congregate on his collar or belt. The true Skiman's jacket is bare and somewhat battered. In advanced cases, a small shoulder-patch, reading "Innsbruck," is permissible. One of the best ploys is mismatched skis, preferably one white and one brown, or one racing ski and one cross-country ski. This is the famous "Sturm and Drang" technique; it give the Skiman a chance to explain that his skis were carved especially...
...youthful yanquis. Far from having a secret, the yanquis were just amateur cotton growers who had struck it rich with their first crop. Until their own tall, sturdy plants bore plump bolls of ripening cotton, neither of them had even so much as walked through a cotton patch...
...Childress' problem is whether to stay where he is and marry his French mistress, or go home and patch things up with his former wife, Mollie. On the scene descends Mollie herself, breathing high-powered charm and making a distressing show of her lack of sensitivity and moral cultivation. When Childress quarrels with a crusty old U.S. Senator for international rabble-rousing, she mocks him as naive. When he talks about settling down to a career as an art photographer, she urges him to devote himself instead to "getting ahead." Mollie lives by what Novelist Sykes bitingly calls...
...last one hundred and sixty-four years, the United States has patched up its Constitution twenty-two times. The latest patch was applied early this week, and it is a pity that a change so drastic as the Twenty-second Amendment should have been put through mainly as an expression of spite against an ex-President...