Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rebecca, 5. The three older children clambered up a pile of folded chairs and leaped over the railing. Then Rachel began throwing the younger children over the rail, one by one. "No, stop!" shouted onlookers on the ground. But there was no response from the balcony. Said bystander Pat Eyre: "One child grabbed on to the railing and fought a little bit, but she pulled him loose and threw him off. Then she put her foot on the rail, balanced for a moment and jumped." There was only one survivor: a daughter, not yet identified by authorities at week...
More recently, Railroad Lobbyist Pat Matthews cultivated a rewarding friendship with former House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills. Matthews had a network of railroad men who knew their home Congressmen intimately. Whenever the secretive Mills wanted a quick head count of the House on any issue, he flashed the word to Matthews. Within a single afternoon, back would come a surprisingly accurate count, and Mills could plot his strategy. In exchange, clauses benefiting railroads readily found their way into legislation from Mills' committee...
...Paul Tsongas, who is campaigning for Ed Brooke's U.S. Senate seat, time is crucial. The polls show that Tsongas is running well behind the front runner, Secretary of State Paul Guzzi '64, in the race for the Democratic nomination. A poll taken about a month ago by Pat Caddell '72, President Carter's favorite pollster, showed Guzzi had three times more support than Tsongas, and that the Congressman was even 1 per cent behind the other major candidate, Boston School Committee member Kathleen Sullivan Alioto. Tsongas's own poll, taken slightly after the Caddell poll, shows...
...repeated charges of Carter's inflation fighters that labor has done nothing to help slow the rise in prices. With the postal settlement, however, both sides have the chance to change their tunes. Labor leaders can say that the postal workers accepted a moderate deal, while Carter can pat them on the back for that-and implore other unions to follow...
...Guard", but cannot quite pull it off. The ballad's lyrics, full of the never-quite-clear symbols Dylan has used with such relish over the past few years, just does not mesh with the music; the keyboard work is a little too slick, the background vocals too pat...