Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Providence heads into its sixth ECAC hockey tournament (they've won only one) tonight at Harvard, things are different. The team is finally getting an identity, and the college has frozen a patch of home ice for the Friars on campus, Schnider Arena...
Correspondents resident in Peking can easily identify with the frogs in the old Chinese proverb that live at the bottom of a well: "They look and look and only see a patch of sky." The shifting political mood of China determines just how much sky will be visible. Now some members of the Peking press corps fear that a new constriction will accompany the regime's campaign against foreign and "bourgeois" influences...
...remarkably well despite the current economic dislocations. "If there is any pride around the Midlands," cabled McWhirter, "it is that they have managed to cope with half-time employment better than anyone else could have. This is our specialty, mate,' said Jack Hebbs, a Midlands shop steward. 'Patch and improvise. The Germans would go running for their rule books, and the French would be out marching with the red flags. We know the routine.' Yet there is growing pessimism that the future may not come around after all. As Richard Mills, 25, a Birmingham plant inspector...
...faculty prides itself on being able to patch up a student's background learning. Among the more popular offerings are remedial courses in basic writing and mathematics. "We take lower ability kids, yes," says Biology Chairman Don Giersch, "but we're able to instill confidence in a lot that might have bombed out elsewhere right away." Conversely, through the College Level Examination Program, older students can get credit at Triton for learning acquired outside the classroom...
...told Royo where to add a canvas patch, where to drape a cascade of wool, where to drop coils of fishermen's rope. Says Miró: "Wool and weaving give me a great sensual feeling." Agrees Royo: "When he picks up a skein of wool, he closes his eyes to feel it, and cries, 'C'est formidable...