Word: pate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...break full many a learned pate...
Corporal Arlie H. Pate, 21, is one of the 23 American "progressives" held by the Reds in Korea who do not want to come home. One of nine children, he grew up in the bare hill country of southern Illinois, not far from the state boundary of the Mississippi River. His father, Daniel Howard Pate, ailing from epilepsy, was seldom able to work. After living for years near East St. Louis, Howard Pate moved his family to a cheap, 62-acre farm south of Carbondale, Ill.-two acres of corn and the rest scrubby, uphill pasture. Arlie had many friends...
...Pate is author of "Mr. Pope and Other Poems," and several books of collected poems...
...seven-man flying squad of his own "aides." Vishinsky arrived later, practically unnoticed, with a mere handful of henchmen. Strictly business, the generalissimo swept into the headquarters building with outriders brushing reporters and newsreel photographers out of his path. Turning into a small lounge, Trujillo shook hands with Maurice Pate, executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, new U.S. delegate to the U.N. In a swift ceremony witnessed mainly by his aides, the generalissimo presented Pate with a $50,000 check, last installment of $250,000 pledged during Mrs. Lord's 1948 good...
...Bueren-picked jury of West German scientists studied the astronomical society's arguments and solemnly announced the the Bueren solar theory had been demolished. His bald pate flushed with anger, the sun-gazing patent attorney refused to pay. "People who want to cash in on the money," he cried, "do not even pay attention to what I have...