Word: patchwork
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...five minutes out of town and run by an exemplary new Totnes resident, Heather Nicholson - a practicing nutritional therapist and iridologist (someone who claims to be able to diagnose ailments by studying the iris). This "organic bed-and-breakfast" is housed in a beautifully converted barn, overlooking an undulating patchwork quilt of fields. Guest rooms are decorated in colors that represent "harmonious auras," while breakfasts are prepared according to your food tolerances. Needless to say, there isn't a cream tea in sight...
...Disraeli’s phrase, one of “two nations” is not surprising, but it’s not enough to see it through A Clockwork Orange’s blood-colored lens, or even in Dickens’ soot-tinged ink. Once, his dirty, patchwork metropolis of chimney sweeps and scofflaws was no more impressive to me than the broad, imperial tones of a history textbook or a Lord Soandso (chancellor, historian, poet, collector of exotic birds) majestically painting the background of the Imperial City, with its thatch roofs, flying buttresses, Big Ben, the golden...
Harvard had actually taken a 4-2 lead into the game’s seventh and final inning, utilizing a patchwork of five different pitchers—sophomore Javier Castellanos, senior Jay Brown, freshman Jason Brown, freshman Jake Bruton, and Salsgiver—to surrender a meager two earned runs over six solid innings of work...
...late, the best story for the Harvard hockey fans has been that of the patchwork and highly successful line containing Packard, junior Brendan Bernakevitch and freshman Ryan Maki...
...funding levels, Franklin's teachers talk of other things. They bemoan a loss of spontaneity, breadth and play--problems money won't fix. The trade-off may be worth it, but it is important to acknowledge the costs. This is the story of an elementary school--once an uneven patchwork of lessons and projects--that has been rationalized...