Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pat on the Cheek. At just about this time, last week's other star witness, an ex-robber named Dominick Genova, was getting out of prison. Genova went to the waterfront, too, and witnessed the meteoric rise of slim, ham-handed Mickey Bowers-boss of the I.L.A.'s "pistol local," which today dominates the great piers of the French Line, the United States Lines and the Cunard Steamship...
...Gregory the Bandit's pals, Tommy Gleason, walked up to Mickey in front of a waterfront bar & grill. "They seemed to be on friendly terms, and it seemed like Gleason was going to pat him on the cheek, but he had a knife in his hand and he cut him in the throat. I was standing outside there. Bowers grabbed his throat and ran back inside the bar, and Gleason jumped in a cab and ran away." Bowers and some pals scrambled into a car and gave chase. "They lost him in traffic. They were looking for him high...
Shakespeare & Gangsters. As a result of such wild reporting in Britain's press many a Briton is led to believe that the U.S. is dominated by Senators Joe McCarthy and Pat McCarran, and that it is a slick, grossly materialistic country populated by bathing beauties, crooners, gangsters and political strong-arm men. Americans have a stereotype of Britain too, says the Manchester Guardian's U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, but it is usually a flattering picture of "Shakespeare, dignified gentlemen, and so on," while Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters...
...first "baptism of blood." The pert torera, who made her professional debut in Juárez last year and has faced some 20 bulls in small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said: "I can't wait to get out of here and fight bulls again...
Each operation lasted two hours or more, and each time Rodney stood it well. This week, he was again taking cereal by spoon, holding his own bottle, and playing pat-a-cake. One-fourth of his brain still had only its natural covering of parchment-like dura mater. That would mean another operation soon. And eventually he would have to have a hard top (bone, metal or plastic) for his skull. But the University of Illinois doctors were already so encouraged by Rodney's progress that they had let his special nurses...