Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Harvard captain Jim Baker is heavily favored for individual honors--his most serious challenger may be M.I.T. sophomore star Wilson--Coach Bill McCurdy will field at best a patchwork outfit...
...church's eleven accredited seminaries had college averages of C+ or lower; more than half had come to theology after having tried some other way of life. The quality of the seminaries them selves was also inadequate. The report found that students are overloaded with a bewildering patchwork of courses, and develop little sense of community with fellow seminarians. Most find chapel so boring and irrelevant that they frequently skip services...
After decades of piecemeal revision and patchwork repair, the U.S. welfare system resembles nothing so much as a vast Rube Goldberg money machine. Long under attack by conservatives because of its cost (more than $6 billion a year for all levels of Government), the welfare colossus has lately received its most telling blows from liberals, who accuse it of subverting the very people it is supposed to sustain. It seems hardly possible that the system could be made more inequitable or inefficient, but that is exactly what the U.S. House of Representatives appeared to have accomplished last week...
...Summer's patchwork of fields faded...
...told her that her afflictions were brought about by a wrathful God who visited the sins of the fathers on the sons. In later life, she developed an odd, quasi-mystical faith of her own, and she has woven its demons and angels, its swans and minarets into her patchwork chronicles. She learned how to sew because, though an invalid, she was forced to serve as her father's assistant in his tailor shop during World...