Word: patching
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...PATCH. A "legal adjuster" on the carnival staff who settles disputes between carnies and marks and often bribes local sheriffs or other officials when they allege fraud-thus patching things up so that the carnival can operate...
...open to him. In no self-respecting European democracy, and perhaps only in that of our allies in South Viet Nam, could a regime conceivably ride out a scandal of the magnitude of Watergate. Mr. Nixon, who has delighted in setting precedents, should set one more and thereby help patch a yawning loophole in the Constitution...
...narrator of The G.A.N. is an 87-year-old retired sportswriter named Word Smith, a broad patch off Colonel John R. Stingo, the uninhibited prose stylist who wrote a column for the old New York Evening Enquirer. Smith, an inebriate of alliteration in a hounds-tooth overcoat, has dedicated his last years to resurrecting the national memory of the Patriot League. According to Smith, it was a third major league that has been made the American equivalent of a Soviet unperson through a conspiracy of silence. How this came about is Smith's story, so shaggy, discursive and bizarre...
...generation neon, and the politics are set by whether the last influx from Philadelphia was middle-or upper-class. There are no pretensions of communality, no historic town squares now hidden: high-rise apartments take their proud and random places next to split-level housing developments and an occasional patch of barren land. Over the last eight years, a "right side of the tracks" has developed, established by the construction of "wooded estates" on old farmland. Most of the drug-use takes place over there, as well as the horseback-riding and country club affairs. Otherwise, there's no culture...
...nearly bowled over by a bearded giant in blue jeans with a LOVE patch sewn on his backside, a KEEP ON TRUCKIN' T shirt stretched across his chest, and a fuzzy tam-o'-shanter perched on his head. He is squeezing the hand of his girl friend, a teased blonde in a Day-Glo orange pantsuit and sequined glasses, carrying a suitcase-size black patent leather handbag and a bag of candy. They crunch along through the litter of wrappers and handbills toward the star attraction, the dazzling Muzi-Kart, a customized 1933 Willys...