Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...improved over the past ten years. He installed a temporary plastic "shunt" so that blood supply to the brain would be maintained during the operation, removed large gobs of fatty material from the carotids, enlarged both the common and internal carotid arteries still further by suturing a Dacron patch in their walls. Then a week later he removed the atheromas that were causing the sharp pain in Key's legs...
...slaughter raged unchecked, white children were evacuated from the city to a nearby Methodist mission. From neighboring Northern Rhodesia, blood was flown in to meet the needs of the Jadotville hospital, where doctors and nurses worked nonstop for more than 48 hours trying to patch up a steady stream of wounded and dying. Many victims were maimed beyond recognition. "A doctor lifted a bandage off one man's head," said a witness. "A large piece had been sliced out of his skull like a slice from an orange, and I could see his brain pulsating...
...underestimated. "Duck, chicken, even goose, and even the rarest bird in the world, the turkey, are sold ... as much as you like." At this officially correct explanation, "the all-seeing eye that had been watching them squinted mockingly at the luckless spies and dissolved in a yellow patch, the color of the wallpaper, as though it had never been there." Was the eye ever there at all? Tertz seems to be saying that the worst thing about a police state is the behavior it imposes on people even when Big Brother is not watching...
Farmers Union President James Patton, wearing a black eye patch as a result of a cancer operation, introduced "the great Secretary of Agriculture...
...Levin, the theater is "a beleaguered city, invested not by hostile troops but by the impersonal, creeping jungle. I ask of any new production: Is it helping to push back the jungle or is it, by carelessness or treachery, letting another patch of strangling green encroach upon the walls?" Last year, even before a new mystery called Signpost to Murder had a chance to make its debut. Levin made up his mind that it would be one more case of jungle rot. "Don't tell me, let me guess," Levin wrote sarcastically in the Express, speculating in advance...