Word: patches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...losing hundreds of gallons of water a day," said Kiely. "The University spent quite a bit of money fixing it, trying to patch it up. They decided that short of rebuilding it, it really couldn't be done...
Today the hinge of Jewish history, the guardian of Jewish destiny, is Israel. After Europe, there was no other choice. It is a terrible irony, however, that the relocation of the heart of Jewish life to a tiny patch of land hard by the Mediterranean makes possible the final realization of Hitler's project. Now it will take but a few nuclear missiles or a battery of poison-gas Scuds to complete the final solution...
...When you train for a big run, it's like grating a block of sandpaper along your thigh," Sheffield says. "But by the end of the year you're going to have a pretty wonderful patch of leather there...
...thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...
...living in his aging Scout van at Camp Mad Max because he can't afford a hotel. Thieves have taken his car battery, his radio, his tools, even his Penn State floor mats. His body is covered with infected mosquito bites. On his back, an antibiotic cream covers a patch of ringworm. ; Asked if he has seen a doctor, he says he cured himself by "sanding" down the skin and washing it with Clorox...