Word: patch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Observatory in Lafayette, Calif., a few enterprising rattlesnakes slither out to toast themselves on the asphalt parking lot, which retains the warmth of the sun long after the air has cooled. Inside, a 30-in. telescope begins a laborious computer-controlled search of the heavens, covering only a tiny patch of sky during the next six hours of darkness. And the following day, at the nearby University of California campus in Berkeley, Physicist Richard Muller, like a seer divining entrails, scrutinizes the new batch of video recordings from Lafayette. He seeks a sign of a dim star that many scientists...
...Giorgio Armani boutique on Milan's Via Sant' Andrea, a smartly cut black leather jacket is $600, half the price in New York. At Zeiss Optical in Munich, a pair of binoculars costs $815, vs. $1,140. Says Miami Travel Agency Owner Constanza DeFelice: "I even bought two Cabbage Patch dolls in a Madrid department store for less than $20 apiece." "Our tour conductors take people into shops, and they become a little bit crazy. They just buy up the whole place," says Jeffrey Joseph, executive vice president of New York's Globus-Gateway/Cosmos Tours. "Going, their suitcases...
While Schatz raised himself through the Mercedes' sunroof to keep a weather eye, Nicholson walked toward a Soviet tank shed, intending to take photographs through a window. At 3:50 p.m., according to Schatz, a Soviet sentry suddenly appeared from a wooded patch about 100 yards from the men. "Watch out!" shouted Schatz. "Come back!" Without warning, American officials charge, the sentry fired three quick rounds from his AK-47 assault rifle. One of them whistled by Schatz's ear, a second went wide, and the third tore through Nicholson's chest as he turned. "I've been shot, Jess...
...brand new field this year," Wentzell noted. "We used to play in a patch of grass where the new outdoor track is. The [Athletic] Department stepped forward and made us a new field this year that will be the home of Harvard softball for years to come...
...American Airways flew past one patch of labor turbulence last week but then jetted straight into another. The ailing airline (1984 revenues: $3.68 billion), which has not shown a profit since 1980, grounded most of its U.S. flights after some 5,700 mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground workers walked off the job Thursday shortly after midnight. The strike by members of the Transport Workers Union, which also sharply curtailed Pan Am's overseas operations, began less than 48 hours after the carrier had agreed to a new contract with its nearly 1,500 pilots...