Word: patches
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...next few nights being rudely awoken by my obnoxious phone alarm more times than should ever be legal. The next few days were a blur, as I stumbled around in a world I saw through half-20/20, half-foggy vision. I eventually resorted to a pirate-esque eye patch to keep things in one perspective...
...realized how important it is to find people who won’t run away from you when you come at them with a frighteningly red eye or a pirate eye patch and the inability to take care of yourself...
Let’s think long-term, folks. There’s no need to cut someone in line at the Café, snub somebody of a seat, or be generally rude to your peers. Everybody is going through a rough patch, and you don’t want Reading Period to destroy your reputation for semesters to come. Buck up! It’ll be over soon...
...nothing else, “Pirates” conveys that what makes a pirate is not his eye patch, but his love for the Queen. Similarly, what makes this rendition of “The Pirates of Penzance” is nothing more complex than its cast and crew’s sense...
Later, Taraki will boast that his coup took both superpowers by surprise. The Americans certainly were: it's rumored, though never confirmed, that the coaches of our Little League game that afternoon were CIA agents who missed the biggest news from their patch for years. All summer, my father cycles to his office at the Ministry of Justice in the sumptuous Darul Aman Palace. He's there to help the ministry frame a written legal code from tribal law, but as the summer wears on, the work dries up. The ex-minister remains in jail. Soviet advisers hustle through...