Word: patch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...squirms up to Albert suggesting that he sell him his half of the business and turn to "harlots" for solace. He cringes away when Albert barks back his objections. Stockard Channing is the neurotic and pushy daughter who returns in the middle of her honeymoon to try to patch up her parents' marriage. She is funny mostly because she is a totally unappealing character. She scowls when she is thinking, and thrusts her chin in the air with a little shimmy when she talks...
...Vietnamese marines emerged from an alley and cuffed a man in Vietnamese army green across the street into our shop. The marines were angry. They yelled at the prisoner, pushed him around and threatened him with their rifles. The man was frightened but calm; he obviously thought the Ranger patch on his sleeve assured his safety. Just then a battered civilian car clanked up, and a sweating Vietnamese marine lieutenant jumped out. The marines chattered excitedly. The lieutenant listened impassively. The prisoner waited. I stood directly beside him, but I never saw the lieutenant's gun. A pistol shot...
...Ulster problem probably bores the world. It certainly exasperates the British. Senator Edward Kennedy notwithstanding, there is no imperial nostalgia left in England for this patch of Ireland-most Britons wish it would simply go away. So, too. do many Southern Irish. As a Dublin voter once said to Irish Politician Conor Cruise O'Brien: "Northern Ireland! I wish someone would saw that place...
...surgical part of the five-hour procedure took only 31 minutes and was uncomplicated. Making a tiny incision in the heart, Replogle sewed a dime-sized patch of Dacron cloth over the hole. After the incision was closed, he hooked Oliver up to a heart-lung machine for the first time; it pumped warm blood through his body and washed the potassium out of the heart tissue. The effect was immediate. Oliver's heart began to beat slowly, then gained momentum; within 30 minutes the beat was back to normal...
...times that debt has proved costly. Until recently, the Soviet Union regarded the country as its own private vegetable patch, vineyard and Tobacco Road. Bulgarians have labored under an ultra-orthodox Communist regime to keep Russian consumers supplied with farm produce, cigarettes and heady red wine. Total economic dependency, combined with brutal political and intellectual repression, assured Bulgaria's status as the most benighted nation in the Soviet bloc...