Word: patch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million fortune by parlaying a two-pump gas station into a rich drilling and trucking operation-and then put fishermen everywhere in his debt with another natural resource, Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands of delighted anglers; of a heart attack...
...Alps, the Tiber-be a purple patch...
...Academy Award), lecherous poppa is Rip Torn; lecherous spinster is Julie Harris; Wise-guy friend is Tony Bill; big boy himself is Peter Kastner. But strangest of all is Elizabeth Hartman--the blind girl you all knew and loved in A Patch of Blue--as the disco dancer. She shakes, she shimmies. she is the most unremittingly evil person you'll meet all week...
...main pumping chambers, the ventricles, was torn and consisted partly of dead tissue. A substantial part of each ventricle, to which the blood supply had been cut off by the shutdown of a coronary artery, was also dead or dying. Dr. Heimbecker repaired the septum with a Teflon patch. Then, as the dying muscle in the ventricle walls was interfering with the working of healthy muscle, he boldly decided to cut it out. He removed two pieces, each 3 in. by 2 in., one from each ventricle. The surgeon put nothing in their place, but closed the heart by stitching...
...minute he arrives in town, the farmer (Anthony Quinn) suffers the first assault on his indomitable optimism. On orders from the local chief of police (Gregoire Asian), who would like to tear up the mazere patch with the farmer's wife (Virna Lisi), the grinning lout is arrested and shipped off to a labor camp for Jews. "But I am not a Jew," he protests. "My son," an old Jew replies gently, "we live in a world where any human being can become a Jew at any moment." That seems to satisfy this pea-brained pollyanna, who is blissfully...