Word: patching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under by pollen, while flies caught by the lily-like arms of another trap flower must wade through mounds of pollen to move from one part of the caldron to another. The curved hollow of the purplish-green Dutchman's-pipe is pocked on the inside by windowlike patches that are surrounded with pollen, which rubs off on the bug who mistakes the bright patch for daylight and freedom. Often the caldron provides warmth and humidity: sometimes it also supplies a nectar to keep the prisoner pollinating for as long as 100 hours...
...athletically through a series of double and triple crosses, showing more bounce per trounce than any leading man of his class. On the final bounce, it is inevitably Moreau who catches him. The minx with a perpetual moue, she sings, dances, suddenly flashes her searchlight smile over an unpromising patch of script-and the lost art of ultrasophisticated comedy springs to life on the instant. She seems more assured than ever as a chic dissembler who has hung by her fingernails through many a tight squeak. As one swindle takes shape, she dryly murmurs to Belmondo: "Be there...
...unusual pattern, curving down from western Alaska to Southern California and then slanting up to Chicago. It may have had some influence on low-altitude weather, but experts do not agree. One group blames the West Coast's time of weather trouble on a great patch of unusually warm surface water far out in the Pacific, which may have somehow encouraged the Hawaiian wind. Most meteorologists ruefully admit that they cannot spot the ultimate cause of the trouble with any assurance. "If we could tell what makes the Pacific High come apart," said one, "we could solve most...
...Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed Abel's upper cranium the first time he used it, and the scene had to be interrupted for nearly a week until the black and blue patch subsided...
...type who manages a mammoth truck-farming plantation. His wife Julie-Ann is a neurotic Southern aristocrat. They have (what else?) an idiot child. Hero Reeve Scott is a young Negro just returned from the Army, determined to fight for his rights and not let Henry Warren steal his patch of land away from him. Reeve's mother is (what else?) the heroic matriarch who long ago was Miss Julie-Ann's black mammy. There are elegant dinners and a dynamiting, a courtroom scene and a prefrontal lobotomy. Doom impends...