Word: patched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover picture on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band focuses on a grave, with the flowers at its bottom shaped like a bass guitar-McCartney's instrument-and like the letter "P." On the inside photo McCartney wears on his left arm a patch reading "O.P.D." (Officially Pronounced Dead), the British equivalent of "D.O.A...
Samuel Saikin denied everything. Taking the stand in his own defense, he said that he had brought Ella Jean to Chicago in an attempt to patch up her marriage. When she arrived, he met her at the airport and took her to his warehouse. Early next morning, they drove to the farm, awakened Joel and drove along the Indiana Toll Road so the two could talk before returning to Chicago to drop off Ella Jean's luggage. He waited in the car while Joel and the girl entered the warehouse. Joel returned alone, he said, and admitted having killed...
Before the Moscow report about Mao, there was a good deal of evidence that the Russians were trying to patch up their bitter, nine-year feud with the Chinese. After the Kosygin-Chou meeting, the Soviets abruptly turned off their radio and newspaper campaign against the Chinese. The most notable exception was a story by London Evening News Correspondent Victor Louis, a Soviet citizen believed to have close ties to the K.G.B., the Soviet secret police. Louis hinted that Moscow, under the Brezhnev Doctrine, had not abandoned the possibility of intervention in China. Despite that report, the 4,500-mile...
Fear of Conseouences. The captain finally decided to abandon the McClure challenge, and the ships turned around and headed for the less hazardous Prince of Wales Strait. As the Manhattan cleared the last patch of ice, the crew and guests poured champagne to celebrate. From there, it was only 500 miles of open water to the oilfields at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska...
Sistine Chapel. In 1960, a patch of green moldlike substance was discovered in a section called the Hall of Bulls (named for the lO-ft.-high creatures on its walls). The patch spread rapidly, and similar growths began to crop up elsewhere. This mysterious maladie verte so distressed French Cultural Affairs Minister André Malraux, an amateur archaeologist himself, that he appointed a commission of archaeologists, speleologists and other savants to save France's "prehistoric Sistine Chapel...