Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company, a regiment, a brigade, a division, a corps and an army. He dislikes the lofty impersonality forced on him by his present duty-"Hell, I'd rather have a regiment." Now, he says, "I don't do much except think a lot, scold a little, pat a man on the back now & then-and try to keep a perspective...
Protocol called for tails, black vests and white ties. But the Embassy staff-21 strong-were tailless, so there was a compromise on dark suits. Pat Hurley wore his beribboned, bemedaled, two-star uniform. At 9 a.m. the staff ran through a dress rehearsal. By n o'clock all hands had gathered at the curly-roofed headquarters building of Chiang's Government...
Movieland evidently didn't realize the smugness of "Four Jills in a Jeep" for here again the cinemagnates proudly pat themselves on the back for their efforts. Through the entire picture there is an endless account of how hard Hollywood has worked to set up the canteen and how wonderful it is. The self-praise reaches its peak when the usual representative of Flatbush praises the canteen with, "Dat's real democracy for ya; all dem big shots listening ta us little shots...
...chair and took an earnest part in the serious talks that followed. Few days later he brought Chou En-lai south for more parleys in Chungking. Fortnight ago Chou returned to Yenan with a proposal from Chiang Kai-shek for a Chinese united front (TIME, Dec. 18). For all Pat Hurley's war whoops, his easy jokes, his readiness to act as an intermediary, the gulf between the Communists and the Central Government was still unbridged...
United's President William A. ("Pat") Patterson was mad because CAB had turned down United's request to fly a cut-off route between Los Angeles and Denver on United's New York to San Francisco main line. Instead, CAB had given the permit to smaller Western Air Lines. As an estimated 50,000 transcontinental passengers a year will fly over the route, many of them on sleeper planes, this might mean that they would be routed out of bed in the middle of the night to change planes. To avert this, CAB suggested that Western...