Word: patching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking has indicated a desire to negotiate with flexibility so as to achieve peaceful coexistence with the United States. Instead of waiting until Mao dies, Washington should consider formulating some new, serious proposals on Taiwan (and the other matters mentioned above) to test the extent of Chinese willingness to patch up relations...
...joggers were participating in Vita Parcours, the newest Swiss exercise craze. Invented in 1968 by Architect Erwin Weckemann, it consists of a mile-long jogging circuit with 20 designated stops suitable for installation in any convenient patch of parkland. At each of the stopping places, spaced about 500 ft. apart, a plaque instructs participants to perform a specific exercise that is repeated from two to 15 times-the hardest near the beginning of the course and the less difficult, relaxing ones scheduled toward the end. At some of the stops appropriate equipment, like chin-up bars, has been installed...
...intense vulnerability. An American mathematician, he has come with his wife Amy (Susan George) to her native village on the windy coast of Cornwall, where he hopes to spend a year doing research. He is also attempting to flee the chaotic violence of the U.S. -and to patch up an uneasy marriage. But there is to be no hiding place...
Later he told a friend: "No matter. I've lived for 26 years with two eyes and now I shall go on living with one." Nonetheless, he has never adjusted to wearing the famous black patch...
Doctors in Jerusalem, Paris and Johannesburg have failed in attempts to fit him with an artificial eye. Author Teveth says that Dayan still frets that his patch makes him look like a highwayman and sometimes frightens small children...