Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since then, the Red Raiders have used the passing of Bob Relph and the running of fullback Pat Healy, who is 300 yards short of Mark van Eeghen's school rushing record to earn high-scoring victories over Lafayette (38-12) and Cornell...
Fighting as a lightweight last spring, he beat the Massachusetts Golden Gloves winner. A week later, his occasional sparring partner and best friend at Harvard. Pat Melendez, was killed in the ring. "That blew my mind and I quit boxing naturally," recalls DiNicola somberly. "He had a lot of charisma and everyone who knew him loved...
...neat job of ignoring it. The book, he maintains, is only a psychological profile, not a definitive tome on American business practices. And to an extent, he is right: as a psychologist, he deals in the abstract, approaching society with a precise scientific manner that far outclasses the pat ramblings of pop sociologists such as Vance Packard and Alvin Toffler. His findings are interesting, and certainly valuable for their portrayal of the different types of drives that keep the engine of the American economy running. Indeed, in one chapter, Maccoby strikes home with a telling analysis of "the head...
...also investigating Ellery Garage and Pat's Towing, another Cambridge towing company, for allegedly charging emergency towing fees to local motorists last winter when city police did not report snow emergency conditions to the towing companies...
...novels in recent years have been more thoroughly textured with contemporary history or more rigorously reluctant to offer pat solutions. Near the end, Daniel tells his ex-wife's sister, a woman he once loved and now loves again: "I don't know how people like us were meant to live this age, Jane. When it gives you only two alternatives...feel deprived or feel guilty. Play liberal or play blind. It seems to me that either way we're barred from living life as it was meant...