Word: patch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read with interest your piece "A Glimmer of Light?" about drug treatment [Dec. 11]. I also agree with Psychiatrist Vernon Patch that the chances of remaining drug free after leaving most institutions hardly ever amount to more than...
...elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled her consort. In practice he eventually tamed and directed her. "I treasured up everything I heard," she wrote, "kept every letter in a box to tell & show him, & was always so vexed & nervous if I had any foolish draft or dis patch to show him, as I knew it would distress & irritate him and affect his poor dear stomach...
...villain but as savior. The factory, however sordid or boring, has legally limited hours and, customarily, provides a string of fringe benefits. "Adam Smith" points out in Supermoney: "Somebody who has spent 16 hours a day looking at the wrong end of an ox for sub-subsistence on a patch in Poland may not complain at all when he emigrates with a paper suitcase to a steel mill on the South Side of Chicago." The message is quite clear: in the history of American immigration there is but one story. It is told in different languages, but the ending...
...Harvard soccer team, given a chance to patch up its injury-riddled lineup at a result of Wednesday's rainout with Tufts, travels to Princeton, N.J today to face a punchless Tiger squad scrambling to avoid the Ivy cellar...
...grimaces and the boy's seeming impassivity the growing comprehension of the onlookers faces. And when we start to go downriver. Boorman's eye guiding Vilmos Szigmond's camera picks up the release of a smooth-skimming canoe when it catches the current, the disruptive churn of a sudden patch of rapids, the collected stillness of a stoned in pond...