Word: patting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Matter of Life and Death, with Claris Leachman and Pat O'Malley...
Cattleman Pat Graves hopped in his 1950 Buick one day last week and raced the nine miles from a Denver bank to his 280-acre ranch outside town. He hustled into the kitchen of his one-story ranch house, and sat down to lunch "Well Mom," said Graves to his pretty red-haired wife, "here we are with mor'n half a million in the bank, and look what we're eatin'." In the bowl were ham hocks and lima beans. Graves had just been paid $505,039.33, one of the biggest checks ever made...
What is the aim of education? Some U.S. educators have a pat answer:- "Training for democratic living." When other educators fail to show proper reverence for their tenets, these pedagogues sometimes erupt-in the orthodox lingo of their...
These qualities might outweigh Halls' pat, nick-of-time ending, some weakness in its basic plot motivation and a tendency to slop over into histrionics. What betrays the picture is a crude compromise with its producers' ideas of topical needs. Thus, the mood of tension and fear that goes before the amphibious attack is suddenly dissipated when the landing itself takes place to the jauntily aggressive tune of the Marine Corps hymn as it might be played by a recruiting band. Even worse is a final battlefield oration by Actor Jack
With 32 seconds to play, Brown defenseman Pat Groggin scored to tie the freshman hockey game, 2 to 2, at Providence last night. Since the varsity game followed immediately, no overtime was played...