Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ruth, 3; and William Franklin III, 2-from "hamming it up" for the tourists, who sometimes come in busloads to stare at the house. Virginia is currently trying to learn the Sermon on the Mount by heart, has been promised a bike and $25 if she gets it down pat by Christmas. "I don't think she's going to make it," laughs her father...
...death of Nevada's splenetic old Senator Pat McCarran (TIME, Oct. 11) gave the G.O.P. hopes of an election-year windfall: a sure Senate seat. Republican Governor Charles Russell appointed Reno Attorney Ernest Brown to replace Democrat McCarran, clearly intended that Brown should finish the last two years of Pat's term. The Democrats, naturally, wanted an election this year...
...reaching the Senate he had been assigned to two of its most powerful units, the Judiciary and Appropriations committees. Under the seniority system, he had only to wait for time to run its course. He buttered up the Appropriations Committee chairman, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, who named Pat chairman of the key subcommittee dealing with funds for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments, thereby giving McCarran a stranglehold which he never really relinquished...
Neither in Nevada nor in Washington was Pat McCarran widely or warmly loved. But he made his mark on political history-and he was widely feared. That seemed to be what he wanted...
...heights of 100,000 to 125,000 ft. Man (Major Arthur Murray) has already flown up to 90,000 ft. and at 2½ times the speed of sound. Rockets have gone up 250 miles at speeds up to 3,600 m.p.h., and two rhesus monkeys (named Pat and Mike) have survived the ordeal of being rocketed up to 190,080 ft., are thus the current holders of the world's altitude record...