Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Police and parking monitors from the parking office in Grays Hall write 25-50 tickets a day for parking violations. Burns also estimates that the University tows 30 to 40 cars a week, and that's a major source of business for Cambridge's well-known auto removal service, Pat's Towing...
Since late 1975, Burns says Pat's has been doing the towing for Harvard by virtue of its low bid for the yearly contracts. Parking official seem pleased with the performance of the men in the bright red trucks, but students with cars often have a very different opinion of the towing establishment...
...River Houses, where students often leave their cars, rather than bringing them across the River to the Business School lot. Whether they are visiting a friend, packing to leave, or grabbing a meal, students often return to find an empty space, their car now in the possession of Pat's. (Burns says, however, that under the agreement between Harvard and Pat's, the tow truck should drop the car without charge if a student comes out to claim his car before the truck has pulled away...
Before going to the House of Commons to deliver his 13th budget message last week, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, strolling in London's St. James's Park, stopped to pat an April snowman on the head. "I think I shall produce a little sunshine to brighten up the spring of our recovery," he declared. "It's a bit cold, but summer...
Slade stops at Scottie's discovery of his emotional insulation, never digging any deeper into the roots of his fears--you know, the primal stuff. Tribute winds up pat and tidy, without plunging us into the existential abyss that can make this sort of thing a real corker. The tragedy of the American sit-com writer has turned out awfully shallow. This bathos gives Jack Lemmon his star turn: fast-food epiphany, downstage center. Neither he nor Slade really needed this--although it must be fun to break down onstage. Tribute slobbers when it ought only to quiver; the mask...