Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airline industry, which suffers periodically from financial turbulence, last week ran into a patch of especially rough air. Items...
Soon state and local cops, along with FBI agents, were scouring Mississippi for clues. They found the assassin's weapon-a Springfield rifle mounted with a new telescopic sight-in the honeysuckle patch across from Evers' house...
...Club pool was in active, but not crowded, use during the afternoon, although for most of the cool morning very few wanted to come any closer to it than a patch of sun on the concrete deck. Some hearty souls did, however, take advantage of the shuttle bus service offered to near-by Singing Beach on the Atlantic...
STROLLING down a quiet street in a small town, James Baldwin came upon a scene that has since haunted his dreams. From a sunlit patch of grass came the singing laughter of a child. Baldwin looked ?and saw a white man swinging his little daughter in the air. "It didn't last for more than a second," recalls Baldwin, "but it was an unforgettable touch of beauty, a glimpse of another world. Then I looked down and saw a shadow. The shadow was a nigger?...
Spiv & Tart. Mother rules their lives in death as she did in life. They build a sort of playhouse in her tomb in the backyard lily patch and call it The Tabernacle, and slowly evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead. Hymns and the promulgation of rules and cruel punishments comprise its simple liturgy. The fact is-not that facts, as such, mean much to them-that mother was a local scandal as a woman of loose morals (which is partly why the adults accepted the kids' story that mother was "sick...