Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thanked his doctors for repairing his facial burns. "Take a look at my face," he said. "Nearly perfect, isn't it?" Except for the eye pads, a reddish patch on his right cheek was the only apparent trace of the attack. "And to think that acid bleached the sidewalk," he said. The familiar Riesel mustache was missing, he explained, only for surgical convenience. Actually, he added, "acid makes the hair grow. I think I'll patent it as a hair restorer and sell it to bald newspapermen...
...autumn day in 1943, Andreas is haunted by the irrational idea that he is a bridegroom of death being rushed into one of destiny's shotgun weddings. As the car wheels click, he blows a mental farewell kiss to a field of flowers, a scrap of music, a patch of sky. In Author Böll's deftly understated handling, all that might be mawkishly sentimental in Andreas' goodbye to life develops instead the percussive pathos of Lear's grief-crazed cry over the body of his daughter, Cordelia. "Never, never, never, never, never!" Into this...
...methods of taking the blood in and out of the body, and pumping it, are similar in the two techniques.) When Dr. Cooley opened the heart, he found that the hole was the size of a half-dollar-too big to close by simple stitching. It needed a blowout patch. With the heart still beating, but relatively free of blood so that he could see what he was doing, Dr. Cooley took a piece of plastic sponge and stitched it over the hole. Then, as he sewed the outer wall of the heart together, he let blood flow back through...
...beach, showed some outer symptoms of extreme Buntism-"a paunch that hung over the belt of his tattered drawers, and cheeks which shook." But Captain Overton did not recognize the signs. "Show me round your little kingdom, Sergeant Crusoe," ordered the captain, "the stockaded hut and the wheat patch and the goat pen, and so on. This promises to be one of the most interesting days of my life...
Wilson and Brown have also sought another "missing-link" ant, believed to be living somewhere in a 10,000 square-mile patch of Australia...