Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does no good to patch streets if the patches are going to wash out in the next day's rain. Each week City workmen fill three-foot deep holes on Mass. Ave. near Littauer and each week the some holes reappear, a little deeper than before. The holes are filled with gravel held together by something sticky, but it obviously is not sticky enough. Bicyclists who try to avoid the gaps in the street run the risk of being struck...
...there some reason why the same incompetent patch jobs is performed over and over again? Surely there must be some contractor in the City able to do a patch job which will last more than 24 hours...
...passenger on the Air France flight from Paris to Mexico City whose bags were 260 Ibs. overweight was, of course, a movie star. Because of her, flowers were waiting at the airport, and so was the press. Floodlights were turned on to make a patch of noon on the dark runway, and the photographers stood poised at its fringes, squinting up into the light as the first tourists filed off the plane. Then she appeared in the welcoming glare-and nobody took her picture. An awkward moment. She smiled and started down the ramp. "There she is!" cried the producer...
Stevens has outdone himself by producing an austere Christian epic that offers few excitements of any kind. Its sole distinction lies in its contrast to those rambunctiously zealous camp meetings that Cecil B. DeMille used to patch together out of breastplates, flexed muscles and Persian rugs. Greatest Story is a lot less vulgar, though audiences are apt to be intimidated by its pretentious solemnity, which amounts to 3 hours and 41 minutes' worth of impeccable boredom. As for vigorous ideas, there are none that would seem new to a beginners' class in Bible study...
Calling for an end to the racial fighting that killed more than 170 Indians and Negroes in the months before the election, Burnham has formed a coalition Cabinet of many colors. His Cabinet includes Negroes, East Indians and whites-all working to patch up the country's sugar and bauxite economy. One of Jagan's pet schemes was a mandatory national "savings plan," under which the government automatically deducted 5% from every worker's wages and put the money into a government-run fund. When Jagan left, the treasury did not have enough funds to pay back...