Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crossexamination, Prosecutor Murphy went after the Catletts relentlessly. When did the Hisses give them the machine? Mrs. Catlett's memory proved vague on the point. Her son Pat placed the time at around December 1937. Shortly after he got it he had taken the machine to a shop on K Street to be repaired. Murphy roared at Pat: "What if I told you that the shop on K Street wasn't opened for business until September 1938?" Pat said finally: "I don't know the time...
...reaching an even broader audience: his first book, Front Porch Farmer (Turner E. Smith & Co.; $2.75) was Atlanta's No. 1 non-fiction bestseller, and four Southern state universities had approved it as an agricultural textbook. Even the rival Atlanta Journal gave Constitution Columnist Cope an ungrudging pat on the back: "An important book for the entire South. Channing Cope is a prophet...
Once this myth has been dispensed with it becomes apparent that Radcliffe College is due for a pat on the back in addition to birthday fecilitations on its 70th anniversary. It graduate adults and not products or types. It attempts to educate not to manufacture...
...Assistant Attorney Thomas Murphy now got into the fight. He objected when Stryker, bobbing around the court, kept getting between him and the witness. He bristled when Stryker gave his arm a jovial pat. Once he spoiled Stryker's melodramatic reading of some evidence by pleading in his heavy voice, "Oh, please, Mr. Stryker, read it straight." His thick, brown mustache worked, he sighed with rage when little Judge Kaufman time & again overruled his objections, sustained many of Stryker...
...House promptly slapped Ed Gossett and passed the bill with a resounding voice vote. But the bill had a clouded future as it went to the Senate Judiciary Committee. There, by interminable secret hearings, bovine deliberateness, and dogged delay, Nevada's silver-haired Pat McCarran had been earnestly sabotaging any revision in the D.P. restrictions. He had pigeonholed one bill, introduced one of his own which nominally increased the number of admissions but kept all the unworkable restrictions. It was only a one-man show, but so far, it had been enough...