Word: pat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since junketing Congressmen began making side trips to Spain last autumn, the news from Madrid has sounded as though they had made their pilgrimages across the Pyrenees just to give Dictator Francisco Franco a kindly pat on the back. Most spoke enthusiastically both of a big U.S. loan to the Spaniards and of full U.S. recognition of Franco's Fascist government. But last week three traveling members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee bluntly suggested that the U.S. should not be judged exclusively by the sweet talk of its traveling politicos...
...many successful politicians, Harry Truman was capable of contradictions within himself, and of trying to run in two directions at once. It also suggested that the Fair Deal was proposing a guarded and perhaps temporary truce. Business would remain wary. But in what often seemed a friendless world, a pat on the head was better than a savagely aimed kick, on any terms...
...time after the second round of his ten-round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that...
...about "bringing the team up for the games." In these days of two platoon football, they just don't go out and "win one for the Gipper" any more. It is far more important to hire a sound football coach than one who can sound like Pat O'Brien in the locker room between the halves. There is, of course, something to the theory that the team which is up for the game plays better than it ordinarily does. But we feel that this point is over-emphasized, and that 49 times out of 50 the fundamentally sound team will...
...secretary are Jeannette Beatty, Jean Berko, Ethel Bronstein, Julie Paxton, and Gracia Taketa; for treasurer, Nina Boheln, Elizabeth Gray, Marianne Rudolf, and Constance Smith; and for council representative, Vicki Blass, Carol Cummings, Dele Gilmore, Anne Friedrich, Judith Herrick, Nancy Jenny, Pat Kook, Marie-Beth Walsh, Jane Whitehill, and Lois Williams