Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veterans been so speedily assured of postwar rewards. At the close of the Civil War, Union soldiers were given $50 if they had served two years, $100 for three or more years. Until 1920 Spanish-American veterans had to be content with nothing but a campaign ribbon and a pat on the back from Teddy Roosevelt. Men demobilized from the A.E.F. were handed $60 in cash by the Federal Government for a new suit or other immediate needs...
...with Despair? Washington stood pat. A correspondent summed up the State Department view...
...Unswayed." Francis Biddle called the report "absurd." Then, after several hours' thought, he issued a statement attacking Pat McCarran's unwillingness to hear any witnesses...
...Attorney General's request to testify, Pat McCarran haughtily replied: the committee wished to reach its conclusions on the facts-"unswayed by emotional arguments...
...retrospection and prophecy of the top floor, crammed with pretzel-shaped, chair-sized chips of plywood (to demonstrate the versatility of wood molders); pat-the-bunny samples of various materials; early modern chairs whose box-kitelike form suggested early abstract paintings-and a chair whose fishnet seat (draped over a pneumatic, plastic doughnut) was surrealistically adapted to the most unsurrealistic sitter...