Word: patches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the weddings performed by Dog-patch's Marryin' Sam-who climaxes his deluxe $2.98 ceremony by thrusting a pair of lighted candles in his ears and jumping off a cliff whistling The Burning of Rome-French funerals come in several grades. It is the undertakers who set these grades, but the church has usually gone along. The cheapest funeral (about $30) is Class 6, which provides no more than a modest hearse, a quick ceremony. Those who want to depart in style can, for a price (as high as $3,000), have black crape hung from...
...Walking through a patch of woods one day in 1948, a Swiss named Georges de Mestral wondered what made burrs stick to his clothes, took some home to find out why. De Mestral not only found out the burrs' secret; he duplicated it with a nylon fastener that seems fair to make major changes in the U.S. garment industry...
...arrived as the diplomats were gathering to carve up Viet Nam. He pitched his green tent on a patch of lawn outside the Palais des Nations. To protest the division of his homeland, he went on a hunger strike, but the diplomats purring past in their black cars paid no attention, and only blood transfusions saved Vo's life. After his recovery, Vo-a teacher in Viet Nam, where the French often jailed him for his nationalist views-wangled accreditation as a newsman, commandeered a desk in the Palais, and started his own newsletter (in French) to campaign against...
...tide of indignation rose, the government hurried into a huddle with church officials to see if it could patch things up. They reached a compromise on distribution of the present stockpile of welfare packages to flood victims in southern Poland, and the church agreed to keep printing presses and mimeograph machines out of its holy places...
...tektites be meteorites that moved on orbits in the solar system, says Kohman. The fragments of single stony meteorites could not cover large areas of the earth's surface, such as the tektite patches splattered over big parts of Texas, Libya and Australia. And it is easy to show, he says, that if they belonged to a loose swarm of small objects in the solar system (e.g., disrupted comets), the gravitational pulls of the sun and its planets would have spread them wider than the diameter of the earth. So they could not fall in any kind of patch...