Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...York City-born Billy the Kid (William Bonney) was shot by Sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County, N. Mex., on July 14, 1881, buried the following day in the old military cemetery at Ft. Sumner...
Commuting Comfort. Across the bridge barefoot people in tall conical hats come pat-patting with heavy bundles and baskets slung from bamboo poles. They are on their way to work. Each Chinese commuter carries a special pass issued by the French Súreté. One side is printed in French, signed by a French official; the other side is printed in Chinese for the convenience of Tonghing's Communist police...
...ready to go to press with long lists of the dead and injured plus 25 stories and pages of pictures. Within a few hours, all of the 100,000 home subscribers had their extra, and another 50,000 copies of Newsday were on newsstands. But Newsday didn't pat itself on the back for its progressive journalism. Instead, it candidly confessed that in one way it had fallen down on its journalistic job, that it had not done all it could to prevent the accident from happening. Said Newsday somberly: "We have known for years that the Long Island...
Paternalism is a smear word. Harvard doesn't pat its students on the head, doesn't outfit their play pens, doesn't sit down with them for fatherly advice. But a Yale student might mix an incisive metaphor and say this; in trying to avoid paternalism, Harvard leans over backwards so far that it falls flat on its face...
...H.D.C. production is mainly praiseworthy for the enthusiastic performance by the entire cast. Richard Heffron and Dorothy Winsor, as Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, presented assured and solid performances. The Antrobus' two children, Gladys and Henry, are consistently amusing as played by Pat Rosenwald and Donald Mork. Alan Nelson, who plays Sabina, capitalizes too much for comfort on her resemblance to Carol Chaining, but nobody can deny that she is a decidedly beautiful young lady...