Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parade was organized by New York Fire Captain Raymond Gimmler, 43, an ex-Marine who got his dander up when an American flag was burned in Central Park's Sheep Meadow during the April 15 demonstration. Gimmler made it clear that the march was not "a pat on the back for President Johnson." He declared: "Peace is not the is sue. Every sane man is for peace. The idea is just to back our fighting...
...Hale statue could be anybody, Bing Crosby, Pat Boone, or even House Speaker Elmer Cravalho." Asked one Protestant minister who favored the Marisol: "Would we take statues of the mutilated body of Christ out of churches and destroy them just because they look so horrible?" The Senate responded to the uproar by authorizing $73,350 to make not one, but two 7-ft. casts of Marisol's Damien. Hawaii, said the Senate resolution, will be judged by the "maturity of its civilization." The Marisol version "will impress the viewer not only with the temperament, character and greatness...
Mavericks & Machismo. Bravo vivified the "Viva Kennedy!" drive in 1960, which helped win the state for the Democrats against Native Son Richard Nixon. And in 1966, it was Bravo who led the defection from Democrat Pat Brown's camp: Ronald Reagan drew 24% of Los Angeles' Mexican-American vote, thus tripling the usual G.O.P. total. Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel does even better in Latin neighborhoods, thanks to his excellent command of Spanish. But the man who wins Mexican-American backing most consistently and heartily is Democrat Sam Yorty, whose maverick manner as mayor of Los Angeles appeals...
When they combined their small licensing businesses to form Licensing Corp. in 1961, Stone and Emmett already had such names as Superman and Singer Pat Boone. They really hit it big with James Bond. They began to peddle the rights to 007 in 1962, cashed in when Gold finger reached the theaters in 1965, touching off sales of $50 million in 007 products. The Batboom was even richer. Six months after the Batman TV series began last year, sales of Licensing-promoted Batstuff-1,000 items in all -reached $100 million...
...correspondent) commands a prose style all too reminiscent of the newspaper he satirizes. And the satire itself is nowhere near the first rank of press spoofery, which is occupied alone by Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Scoop! The Whole Truth can only be taken as a broad burlesque of pat-a-cake editors, cream-puff reporters, puff-piece journalists-crumb-bums...