Word: patches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this Sunday's New York Times, Anna Quindlen writes--in response, in part, to Carter's work--that "there is a yawning hole in all the psyche of America and Americans" where there should be spiritual satisfaction. Now, people are starting to agree, it's time to patch that hole...
...pumpkin patch is the best," said Denise DeMore, a visitor to the celebration. "You can be a kid again...
Debuting this year was a pumpkin patch. For $2, celebration- goers could plunge into a pile of pumpkins, keep any two and have photographs taken with their produce...
...never saw the local spin on this issue in the national press. While scientists were talking of hantaviruses carried in rat feces, a local columnist swore that the victims shared a common thread: the feds had sprayed a small marijuana patch near Farmington with herbicides but delayed chopping it down and burning it until the next day. When the Feds came back they found the crop harvested for presumably local consumption...
...Doctors have devised an in utero operation for treating myelomeningocele, a birth defect in which the spinal cord protrudes from the spine, leading to paralysis and incontinence. The operation, which uses a skin graft to patch the spine, has been tested successfully in sheep...