Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gooney Bird" flights are designed not to induce surrenders but to create unrest. By week's end, however, the Communists themselves gave the "Gooney Bird" its biggest pat on the tail. The two girls, known only as Miss L. and Miss C. to the Communists, were officially branded as war criminals...
...survived six overturns of his government, each time patiently rebuilding a coalition. He has given Italy seven years of continuous government, making him the longest-lived Premier in Western Europe. He has held together a sprawling aggregation of land-starved peasants and big landowners, Catholic trade unionists and stand-pat industrialists-clustered under the Lombard Cross of his Christian Democratic Party. He has staved off the largest Red party this side of the Iron Curtain...
...strategic points. But no trouble came. In Johannesburg's "Freedom Square," a dilapidated vacant lot in the Indian-African slum of Fordsburg, only 4,000 blacks showed up, instead of the 100,000 predicted. In & out among them flitted white Communist agitators, jangling collection boxes and spouting pat phrases about "U.S. imperialism in Asia." Sturdy Dr. Moroka (who is not a Communist) climbed up on a platform built of empty beer boxes. By the time he finished speaking, half of his audience had drifted away...
...first year was bitterly hard. "Just existing was quite a struggle," recalls Pat Aid. The school grew to 15, then 24 students. The school had to move out of the orphanage, and scrape together $1,700 for a down payment on an empty house. Unable to pay all the bills, the parents appealed for help. They got $181 from a rummage sale, $800 from a Spokane summer theater, a $500 loan from a doctor. It cost about $300 per semester to teach each retarded child, and the bills kept piling up. For three months Patricia Aid got no pay; once...
Teacher Aid and her volunteer parents geared their program to speech: if a child could talk, they decided, he could learn. They collected 15,000 pictures from magazines, made the youngest children form words about them. "Maybe after 20 times," says Pat Aid, "a child will suddenly achieve one small sentence." For older children they used card games, dice and bingo to teach numbers, taught sewing, weaving and elementary reading. Teacher Aid acted out such stories as Little Red Riding Hood with exaggerated expressions...