Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting a picture, he approaches the canvas as if it were a door to be broken into to reveal the hidden life beyond. Each line, dot or patch of color -for example, in Lent, the orange splash at the right-gives the artist a sensation and suggests the next step he must take...
...given by Social Christian (Catholic) Boss Théo Lefevre that Premier Eyskens would not be allowed to succeed himself. "We are casting about for new faces," said Lefevre. Hope was that the next government would conveniently forget to implement the Loi Unique, thus permit Socialists and Catholics to patch over the ugly cleavages opened during the past five weeks. If there was any consolation, it was that the smoldering antagonisms between Walloon and Fleming, Catholic and anti-Catholic, royalist and republican, had spent themselves in inconclusive exhaustion...
...knew the ordeal ahead of me was a long one. In telling the whole truth I might convict an innocent man . . ." The narrator testifies, dry mouth and all, for more than 300 pages about an oily Emir who wants more oil, and a berobed old Britisher with a patch over one eye and a theory that, by Allah, there is petroleum under a certain unpromising patch of ground. The old fellow's bastard son shows up, learns to be an oil geologist in a trice, and shortly is locked in mortal combat with his father. It is this...
...Sticky Patch. Film insurance has, in fact, been a frisky business lately. Lloyd's several other English firms and San Francisco's Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.-the only American underwriter in the field-have been slogging about in what one English expert calls "a rather sticky patch." The death of Tyrone Power during Solomon and Sheba caused the biggest settlement in history: Fireman's Fund paid United Artists $1,219,172. The vaguely defined illnesses that put France Nuyen out of Suzie Wong cost the insurance companies nearly half a million-when Audrey Hepburn fell...
...technicians from radiation while they lowered specially designed long-handled tools into a flanged opening, 2⅛ in. in diameter, at the top of the vessel. Then, cutting torches and reamers, operated by delicate levers, rounded out the irregular-shaped holes in the reactor shell, making them easier to patch...