Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style of FM 21-13 is most influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr and Pat Boone, the style of The Combat Leader's Field Guide is derived primarily from Ernest Hemingway. Consider this passage from a section on probing for mines: "Echelon men 15 to 25 M to minimize casualties." This tone of taut realism is characteristic of the book. Its author, also anonymous, gives these instructions for testing for the presence of poison gas: "Nerve agents being quick killers, make test with detectors, then have 2 or 3 men unmask for 5 min.... If no symptoms, unmask...
...small ones craned. The big ones beamed. And the littlest one drowsed through it all. It was christening day for Christopher George Kennedy, 15 days. Resting in the arms of his aunt and godmother Mrs. Pat Lawford, the eighth child of Ethel and Bobby Kennedy was baptized by Richard Cardinal Cushing in St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, Mass. The gathering of the clan all but buried Family Friend Dean Markham, who works in Washington as executive secretary of the President's Narcotics and Drug Abuse Committee, and was, after all, the baby's godfather. Said Cardinal Cushing...
...rest of the revue ranged over wider subject areas. Pat Dole and George Connolly touched on the trials of compact car "parking ("I thought it was your head, but it was only the steering wheel.") That dur- able dart board, the First Family, was treated quite well with a song about "Young Love"--Caroline was just "the girl next door" whom George Connolly met at the Easter egg roll...
...Peace Corps marching off to save the world. It bothers the volunteers. Said Shriver in his congressional message: "As the Peace Corps enters its third year, volunteers and staff alike have the feeling that the Peace Corps stories most often repeated are too glamorous, too glowing, too pat. Few of these stories talk of the day-to-day problems, the frustrations, the harsh disappointments, and the serious occupational hazards-as one volunteer put it-of 'dysentery and boredom.' In a sense, the most unsettling challenge the volunteer faces is his publicity. A generous world press has drawn...
...Muggeridge: "Fifty years ago people would have gone to Maida Vale and patronized one of the grandes cocottes. If there is anything new in this, it is the overlapping of the social life of Cliveden and of Ward." In short, Britain may be in danger of abandoning Actress Mrs. Pat Campbell's celebrated axiom about Edwardian London: "You can do anything you please here, so long as you don't do it on the street and frighten the horses...