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...with his wife and four sons, rode the tide atop a patch of straw that had been the roof of their house. In the end, the man was alone. "They all lost their grip and floated away," he said, "my wife and sons, the big and the small ones." Said another victim: "That night it seemed as though the whole town was crying...
...even thought of looking for sponsors in Cambridge. They would buy our suits and we would wear a little patch somewhere, say for example, Joe's Pizza," Graff said...
Surgeons have something in common with auto mechanics and TV repairmen, since all are devoted to curing ills that baffle the amateur. But the men who cut and patch and sew the human heart inspire awe even among cynics, precisely because they are working at the beating heart of life. That sense of awe and vulnerability lends Thompson's work a special source of drama...
...Things patch up and a two-year homosexual affair follows. Forster handles love scenes with exquisite tact, neither prudish nor extravagant, but by even the broadest of erotic standards, the novel is decidedly small-time stuff--gentle rather than sensual...
...delegates cannot merely patch up the Bretton Woods system of fixed prices for every currency, based on a fixed relationship between the dollar and gold. President Nixon shattered that illusion on Aug. 15, when he announced that the U.S. would stop selling gold to redeem foreign-held dollars. The "Nixon Shock" has already moved moneymen into discussions that would have sounded like sheer fantasy a few months ago. American officials who once proclaimed the majesty of the dollar now cheer declines in its price on newly freed money markets, because they hold the potential for helping the U.S. balance...