Word: patches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dangerous wrath of United Nations Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who has never been that particular group of Central American rebels' most devoted band that calls itself the Dead Kennedys (best known for its rendition of "Kill the Poor"), thereby annihilating the White House's already troubled efforts to patch up relations with the Democratic party...
...Iberia, La., federal agents found nearly 1,200 lbs. of cocaine in two dozen gunny sacks that were supposed to be filled with cattle feed. Near Santa Rosa, N. Mex., duffel bags packed with 200 lbs. of coke were tossed out of a plane onto the wrong patch of scrubland and found by a state policeman. The same thing happened near Ellijay, Ga., when, police gathered up more than 500 lbs. of coke in duffel bags that had been dropped into the wrong valley. And three weeks ago in Dothan, Ala., after a private plane made an emergency landing, police...
...batwomen get a chance to patch up their defense Wednesday when they travel to B.U. Fortunately for the young Crimson, the Ivy championships are still nearly three weeks away, plenty of time to gear up for the tougher league competition...
...American anachronism, the dry county. After all, this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, and yet here and there across the country (and particularly in the South), pockets remain where the law does not allow the sale of alcohol. Lauderdale County, Ala., is a patch in point...
...guess it's a long way from everybody else's home town of the guys around here too. The only thing we're not far from is the front. Three miles down the road, the war is going full blast. It's our job to patch up the wounded and, the way they say it around here is, send them back to get wounded again. Actually, I don't do the patching. I'm kind of like what you might sort of call the company clerk, which is still a pretty good thing...