Word: pat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolutions. After the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey, told the delegates that "there was no room for discrimination" in the house of God, the Rev. Channing Phillips, a black United Church of Christ minister from Washington, snapped: "The same old platitudinous drivel." Explaining her own dismay with such pat pleas for racial justice, a delegate from Ceylon said: "We have had enough of singing as the missionaries taught us to sing, 'Red and yellow, black and white,/All are equal in Thy sight.' What is necessary is for us to really recognize one another as equals...
...week the Senator made his move. Sirhan's jury had voted the death penalty on April 23, and Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker was considering a motion to reduce the sentence. Kennedy drafted a plea for mercy in his fine longhand. He sent copies to Ethel, Sisters Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, and his mother, Rose. They had discussed the matter before; all approved the text. Then Ted sent his original copy to Judge Walker. "My brother was a man of love and sentiment and compassion," he wrote. "He would not have wanted his death...
...atmosphere," says Doretha Freas-ier, a sophomore at the University of Chicago who lives in coed Woodward Court. "The mere fact that you can talk to a guy any time you want to means you're going to be better adjusted socially." Adds Stanford Senior Pat McMahon: "I think it encourages a more holistic relationship. It is very important that men and women see each other as more than bodies...
...deeply has the campus-violence issue touched the electorate that in a few months Hayakawa has become one of the state's best-known figures. Field found that he had wider recognition than former Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown and former Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch, now President Nixon's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Further, in a state that has in the past shown hostility to Asians, 82% of the voters said they were "strongly favorable" or "somewhat favorable" to what they have seen of the diminutive Nisei...
Reliable captain Dick Benka easily captured the shot pat with a toss of 55 ft. 7 in., nearly three feet ahead of teammate Charlie Ajootian, the runner-up. Both performers picked up more points for the Crimson later when Benka finished second in the discus throw and Ajootian came in fourth in a closely-contested hammer throw won by Harvard sophomore Ed Nosal. Only 2 1/2 feet separated the top four finishers...