Word: patches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Fitzgibbons out of the hole, Dales had to settle for a double-bogey when his second shot landed on a patch of ice in a green-side sand trap. The rest of the way, though, Dales played unimpeachable golf...
Fiction has always made use of monumental festive gorgings to patch over any gaps in the plot. Chaucer sneaks them in in his prologue to the Canterbury Tales writing of a house where it "seemed to snow food and drink and every kind of delicacy one can think of." And in Dickens' Christmas Carol, the crusty Scrooge's transformation begins when he supplies a complete spread, including goose, for his new friend Tiny...
...soon as they become convinced that the U.S will stick to a clear-cut economic policy. In Whitman's view, the Administration's dollar-revival plan consists of one Band-Aid and one magic bullet. The move to big intervention-selling gold, buying dollars-will barely patch a scratch. But the shift to tighter money, she believes, will be the real cure for the dollar's debilities. The trouble is, the early side effects will be bad: higher interest rates, which lead to higher prices for a while. In time, however, the stringent money policy will force...
...Dada, it was a fairly grandiose boast. Last week, after a series of radio broadcasts falsely claiming that his country had been invaded by neighboring Tanzania, Big Daddy announced that a 2,000-man Ugandan force had made a "record in world history" by occupying a 710-sq.-mi. patch of Tanzanian territory in "the supersonic speed of 25 minutes." Henceforth, Amin declared, ''all Tanzanians in the area must know that they are under direct rule by the Conqueror of the British Empire"-one of several modest sobriquets that Amin uses to describe his ample (300 lbs.) self...
...there on the platform in Lynn, and if that wasn't a show for Democratic unity...Well, there were a few embarrassing moments when Kennedy refused to shake hands with the gubernatorial candidate, and when King got booed and hissed after he was introduced, but the President managed to patch things up by telling people that the Democratic party is broad enough to encompass all sorts of views. If the Democratic party is that broad, maybe it is time to create a third party...