Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decisive in borderline cases. "This is a chance for the sensitive, imaginative student to get even," says Bowdoin's Admissions Director Richard Moll. Amy Carney ensured her acceptance to Bowdoin when she spotted a tear in Moll's pants, then mailed him an embroidered linen patch accompanied by a quotation from Thoreau on the value of mending old clothes. The college's aim, says Moll, is "to build a class full of differences...
...answer to requests for the use of the Yard, Cabot received a flat "no," but since then so many Festival dreams have materialized that the Administration seems to be offering far more cooperation--all to the University's advantage, one would like to hope, and an excellent way to patch up its damaged reputation where the community is concerned...
Uncertainties, no. The differences between Canada and the U.S. are well understood by the two governments, and refuse to go away. Thus, Nixon spent the better part of two days in Ottawa last week trying to patch up a tattered neighborly relationship...
Nature's Geometry. What is dated about the humor is the display of rabbity virility that Morse and Roberts have to put on, as if women were as deliriously mind-boggling and dangerously inaccessible as Farmer McGregor's lettuce patch. The one who captures Tony Roberts' fancy is Sugar Kane (Elaine Joyce), the band's singer and a lovely tribute to nature's geometry who would have made Euclid blink. Sugar is keen on meeting a millionaire. In a twinkling, Roberts returns to manhood, sprouts a yachting outfit, flashes a Wall Street Journal and woos...
...prepared to deliver on all of his hefty requests for more arms. Sadat, moreover, resents playing the role of broker for Russian interests elsewhere in the Arab world. His trips to such vocally anti-Communist states as Libya and the Sudan, where he has recently tried to patch up the tattered Russian image, are known to anger him deeply...