Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fled Uganda in 1979 with his wife and 23 children for sanctuary in Saudi Arabia. Occasionally he dons traditional Arab garb and joins other Ugandan exiles for coffee in a downtown Jeddah hotel. A devout Muslim, Amin lives quietly in a modest villa outside the city, tending a vegetable patch and feeding his goats and chickens...
...plan will cut off the two streets from what is now a six-way intersection where Garden St., Concord Ave., Follen and Little Concord meet. With the change, that patch of road, which sits in front of the Longy School of Music, will become a more conventional four-way intersection...
...drama on the Straits of Florida, most Cubans struggle on, trying to patch together a normal life. Government workers returned to their desks last week from August vacations. Children put on their maroon uniforms and went back to classrooms lacking books, pencils and paper. In the streets of Havana, the gossip has turned from Castro's woes -- the bad sugar harvest, the new taxes, the problem of prostitution -- to the rafters...
...circuit-riding doctor for several abortion clinics in northern Florida, he realized he needed a vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
...hear it on most summer mornings and evenings, and sometimes all day long, in the distance or as close as your next-door neighbor's: the whine and roar of power lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chain saws and other unbelievably grating gizmos, grinding away to keep that cherished patch of lawn tidy and green...