Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Modicum of Progress. During the final 36 hours of the meeting, haggard and dispirited delegates shuffled from conference room to conference room seeking some small patch of common ground upon which a final communiqué could be based. The resulting document, while it conceded a modicum of progress, expressed the South's "regret" that "certain proposals for urgent actions had not been agreed upon...
...close to 90°. By the 20-mile mark, 35-year-old Romance Language Teacher Alberto Meza gave up and rolled under a faucet in the Johnson's Mound Forest Preserve. Water streamed over his head and down over his red fishnet shirt with its Boston Marathon patch...
...third consecutive Eastern Sprints title, went into the contest expecting a tight race from Yale's eight, which last week made the finals for the first time in nine years. And tight it was--for half a mile. Yale, down by two seats at that point, hit a rough patch of water, and a minor crab made opened the race up to five seats...
...makes the official major league baseball after a 101-year Spalding reign, and the scuttlebutt is that Rawlings is turning out a rabbit ball. Says Cincinnati Reds Batting Coach Ted Kluszewski: "The ball moves faster through the infield." Adds a baseball executive: "Lay it in the lettuce patch, and it hops...
Whether overuse of credit causes marital strife, or vice versa, the combination often leads to a sequence well known to bill collectors and lawyers: debt defaults, followed by divorce, followed by bankruptcy. Oddly, say credit people, it rarely works the other way around; if a debt-ridden couple can patch up the marital quarrel, they usually can work out a way to clear up bills and return to solvency too. In other words, the family that pays together, stays together...