Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While his discovery is a valuable shortcut to mapping such rock formations, Raines says that deposits would not be found under every sagebrush patch...
...most outside observers, that dream seemed more like a mirage. The mango-patch "republic" (pop. 480,000) is unlikely to win recognition from any nation apart from South Africa, Zimbabwe Rhodesia, and its fellow black homeland states of Transkei and BophuthaTswana, which obtained "independence" from Pretoria in 1976 and 1977. The fragility of Venda's new status was even reflected in its stage-prop capital, Thohoyandou ("head of the elephant"). Pretoria had hastily fitted out the town for the occasion with a cluster of government buildings, a hotel, a supermarket and the stadium...
...feels much the same," Smith said. "I had a very pleasant entry into Britain. I looked down and saw and green patch and realized it was Twickenham rugby ground. It brought back some pleasant memories...
...many strange and illuminating episodes in Janet Frame's tenth novel concerns an Englishman's experiment with truth-seeking in the desert. He chooses a simmering patch of wasteland east of Berkeley, Calif., and in a few hours discovers that his dry run is the real thing. As he waits under a road sign for his wife to return, a jackrabbit bounds into his shadow to cool off. This is followed by three rapid epiphanies. First, that his life was a gift to himself and others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong...
Several thousand feet above a bleak patch of western Utah, a 20-ft. long, cigar-shaped drone dropped from a B-52 bomber, spread its stubby wings and began whipping around an oval course 100 miles long and 30 miles wide at speeds up to 500 m.p.h. So last Tuesday began the great flyoff to pick the first U.S. air-launched cruise missile (ALCM), a weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead some 1,350 nautical miles and delivering it on target with near pinpoint accuracy. The weapon is designed to boost the nation's atomic punch...