Word: patch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wouldn't buy it. If eventually Quebec should go back to a sort of patch-up job of an obsolete system, by that time I think I'd be retired anyway. There's no halfway house in a federal system. You're either out or you're in, and the rest is patch...
...chap who put an eye patch on the Hathaway shirt man and made Commander Whitehead a household beard consistently heeds the advice he has dispensed for decades. In the Confessions he warned never to be boring, and to repeat that previous campaign-the earlier book was intended to drum up business, and did-would thus be a sin. Blood, Brains and Beer also adheres to other cardinal principles of admaking: the straight story, smoothly told, sells stuff best; it is wrong to lie, but feel free to omit; humor should not be overdone (it is a bit too scarce...
Yamit's residents are Israeli and intend to remain so. Their streets are patch-worked with blue-and-white Israeli flags snapping defiantly in the desert wind. Should Begin or another Premier eventually agree to return Sinai to Egypt, the settlers intend to try by court action to hold the government to a 1971 promise to keep the settlements under Israeli control. But most of the residents would leave if the Egyptians returned. Says Carol Rosenblatt, a 36-year-old mother of three from Miami Beach whose thatch-roofed restaurant is a local gathering place: "I brought my kids...
...addition to controlling Kwajalein, Johnston, Midway and Wake islands, the military has reserved substantial acreage in Palau and the Marianas. The highest naval profile is on Guam, where two-thirds of the island-including the best beach, the only lake and the one patch of tillable soil-remains off limits to the population save for 8,800 U.S. servicemen and Pentagon civilian employees...
...watching a friend's once happy marriage bleed to death in a well-manicured living room. The truly autobiographical Neil Simon cannot face that. In all of his plays, Simon has never looked at pain for more than a moment without the shield of a Hathaway eye patch. He uses the wisecrack as a poultice to ease the sight of life's open wounds...