Word: patch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rations. Families fortunate enough to have heat, water or electricity opened their doors to the homeless. In the streets of the towns, volunteer workers joined military personnel in the unending job of picking up the pieces. In Seward a 30-ton fishing boat lay incongruously in a patch of woods several hundred yards from the shore. In the dockside railroad yard, a big switching engine rested on its side 200 ft. from the tracks...
...must have flown it in," marveled a California highway patrolman. "You can't drive in there." The crumpled silver-grey Ferrari was wedged between the pines in a canyon in California's High Sierras, where Singer Vic Damone, 35, crash-landed after skidding on a patch of snowy pavement. The car was a total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned...
Saved by the Wings. The first challenge came from ambitious Juan Lechín, the leftist Vice President, who has been at loggerheads with Paz ever since they rose to power in the 1952 revolution that toppled the Andean country's feudal tin-mining aristocracy. Unable to patch up their differences at the ruling M.N.R. party convention in January, Paz had himself nominated for another term as President, while Lechín was drummed out of the party. Then Lechín called a rump convention at which he tried to rig an anti-Paz alliance of Communists...
Montreal's presence at the top of the league was predicted by no one at the start of the season. But the Canadiens have come up with rookies Jacques Laperierre and Terry Harper to patch up their defense, which seemed hopelessly weak five months...
Because 1964 is a Presidential election year, the Muslim leader believes that his call for direct Negro action in politics is particularly timely. He claimed that "the Negro could decide in '64 whether Johnson will remain the White House or return to his Texas cotton patch...