Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first leeward reach and managed to make it 57 sec. by the fourth mark. But on the fifth leg, a 4.5-mile run with the wind dead astern, the lead and the Cup changed hands. Playing the wind shifts, Conner moved to the left and sailed into a patch of dead air. With sails almost slack, Liberty jibed back, but the Aussie superboat picked up two shifts of friendly wind and rounded the fifth mark with a 21-sec. lead. Conner battled desperately to recover on the last, upwind leg, going through 47 grueling tacks. Said the American skipper...
...Fifer, 1866, Zola remarked that Manet did not shrink from "the abruptness of nature": "His whole being bids him to see in patches, in simple elements charged with energy." The same claims would be made by the postimpressionists-patch and discontinuity, "arrangement" as against continuous modeling. If The Fifer were a little more abstract, more "Japanese," it would almost be a Van Gogh. At times, Manet's tact in balancing the decorative and the real almost passes belief, an example being the black stripe on the fifer's right leg-swelling and closing with negligent grace, extending...
...then, Shamir still cannot patch together a convincing parliamentary majority, Herzog may turn to Labor, the largest party in the Knesset. Labor Leader Peres, 60, had begun to woo members of the small parties as soon as he heard the news of Begin's resignation. But the opposition has suffered from the long-festering feud between Peres and former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Besides, given Shamir's rapid move to consolidate power, it seemed unlikely that Labor would be given the chance to return to power without elections, which are now scheduled...
...about everything. Hamlet disdains it: "The proverb is something musty." Yet the plays overflow with musty somethings: "Men are April when they woo; December when they wed"; "A little pot and soon hot"; "The fashion wears out more apparel than the man"; and, more to the point, "Patch grief with proverbs...
...Every year, on the anniversary of the program's Feb. 2, 1981, launching date, points are totted up, and a record is sent to the individual's home. Upon reaching 100 points, the worker gets a light blue nylon jacket emblazoned with the company logo and a patch signifying membership in the 100 Club. Every one of the plant's employees has now earned a jacket...