Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long months, Nevada's crusty old Pat McCarran had" fought off the day with secret hearings, long junkets, parliamentary delays and diversionary bellowings. But one day last week he was close to a reckoning: only three hours remained before the long-delayed vote on a new Displaced Persons bill...
...eligible cutoff date to qualify as a D.P. was advanced from Dec. 22, 1945 to Jan. 1, 1949, thus giving a chance to refugees from postwar pogroms and Communist persecutions, and the requirements that 40% of all admissions be Baits and 30% be farmers were struck off. Despite Pat McCarran, the U.S. at last was about to do a little more for the world's helpless, as both parties' platforms had long pledged themselves...
...high hurdles, Pat McCormick and Charlie Durakis haven't loosened up yet. McCormick, Durakis, and Geick are doing a little better on the low hurdles. Carter can broadjump over 23 feet, Geick is close to 22, and Jerry Gibson and Bob Ray may produce...
Triumphant Hour (Sun. 2 p.m., NBCTV, 5 p.m., Du Mont, 9 p.m., Mutual). Guests: the Dionne quintuplets, Jimmy Durante, Pat O'Brien, Maureen O'Sullivan...
...been serving a 25-year term for robbing a Missouri post office and brutally beating up the postmaster. When Jackson was captured on an Oregon ranch after an I.N.S. story about him appeared in the Portland Oregonian (circ. 214,916), I.N.S. gave itself a cross-country pat on the back and the Portland paper crowed: OREGONIAN STORY AID TO CAPTURE. The fact: the tip that led to Jackson's capture came to the FBI four days before the I.N.S. story appeared in the Oregonian...