Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tureen sees the incorporation as a case o white greed cloaked under ostensible white magnaminity. "It was a gimmick--the whites tried to patch it up as a move to help the Indians and then they rip off the Indians' land. It wasn't terrible then, but it set off an inevitable process. Now the Indians don't control the town...
...Alliance for Progress in 1961 had Latin Americans seen anything quite like the attention they were getting from Washington last week. Even as representatives of the U.S. and Panama were striking an agreement for a new Canal treaty (see THE NATION), the Carter Administration was busy trying to patch up frayed relations and win new friends elsewhere south of the border...
...Joyce. For once he had no need for cajolery. Joyce was so eager to sell his masterpiece in the U.S. that, in his haste to make the appointment, he was run over by a taxicab. When Cerf met him, he was "sitting with a bandage around his head, a patch over his eye, his arm in a sling and his foot all bound up and stretched out on a chair...
...speeches, contemporary issues of TIME (which becomes a character mockingly called the "National Poet Laureate"). One chapter is devoted to the contents of the June 19 New York Times. In the next chapter, Vice President Nixon is shown reading the same issue of the Times, and that patch of earth is scorched once again...
Even if the objections could be overcome, there would still be an oil overflow until one or another of the schemes could go into effect. As a temporary, though unlikely, patch, it has been suggested that the U.S. export Alaskan crude to Japan, swapping it for part of Japan's supply of oil from the Middle East. But that would require presidential approval and congressional concurrence. The President's decision is expected this week or next. The only other immediate way to use all the oil would be to ship it by tanker through the Panama Canal...