Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorce. Flashbacks show how Bette grew from simple beginnings into a money-hungry snob who tried to shape her husband into her own image of success. Then she goes off on a cruise, learns something about loneliness, drifts from self-pity to remorse, is tearfully ready at last to patch things...
...these days [the truth] will knock down this tin shop of absurdity and wickedness. Then the adventurers will take away their roulette wheels, their hair-curling machines, their good-luck charms. They will go away rich, and laughing at us. Here, amid the uproar, fighting to patch the sinking ship, we will be left alone, the disillusioned...
...York. For the bebop man, Manhattan's Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants...
...office on a bus whose fare was a third higher than it was a month ago. The story was much the same in shops, department stores, haberdasheries and restaurants. The U.S. was reaching through rising prices to buy what it wanted as a berry picker reaches into a nettle patch. "Sure, they're buyin'," said a Boston salesgirl, "but they're lookin' and pawin' and hemmin' and hawin' before they...
...last September. Then their differences over the proper policy toward Pakistan and India's Moslem minority-Patel favored a tough line-led to an open struggle for control of the Congress Party. Patel won the first round, but in the end mutual dependence prompted Patel and Nehru to patch up their quarrels...