Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some observers detect in him a touch of demagogy and personal vanity. One photographer who has followed Walesa notes that he never passes a mirror without stopping to pat his hair into place. In interviews, he sometimes seems flippant to the point of arrogance. In private conversation, he has a marked fondness for first-person pronouns. In public appearances, however, he can exhibit flashes of deep humility. A crowd of miners in Jastrzebie last October asked Walesa who could teach them democracy. His answer: "Who? Not Lesio [a diminutive of Lech], for he is too small, too stupid. Yourselves. Everybody...
...news staffers have adopted it as an inviolable rule of tongue. Happy talk is not reprehensible, but should it be force-fed to an audience looking for the news? Surely not, no more than a sports fancier tuning in football should be obliged to endure Tom Brookshier and Pat Summerall happily going over their personal travel schedules...
...everyone we know. For A. Simone Reagor, Eugene Genovese, Lyndon Larouche and Aglaia Senese, Ned Coll, Larry Bird, Meryl Streep and Abbie Hoffman, Ben Schatz, Richard Frye, Cyrus Vance and Stanley Hoffmann, Baruj Benacerraf, Muhammad Ali, Simon Schama and Selwyn Cudjoe, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ann Ramsay, Nathan Huggins and Pat Sorrento, Al Dershowitz and The Quincy House Two, Shirley Hufstedler and Pere Ubu, Charlie Beckwith, Walter Cronkite, Alex Bok and Alex Haig, Francis Duehay, John Travolta, Sid Vicious and Jim Craig. Theda Skocpol, Lewis Brooks, Felix Rohatyn and Jorge Hankamer, Andy Warhol, Jerry Falwell, James Q. Wilson, Barry Commoner...
Harvard started out strong, staying up with Providence basket for basket and playing a solid, effective 1-3-1 zone defense. The starting lineup of Nancy Boutillier, Kate Martin and Pat Horne at point guard, forward Marget Long and center Elaine Holpuch offered just the right mixture of height, speed, shooting ability and defensive expertise to keep up with a touch Providence squad, last year's ECAC champions. Coach Carole Kleinfelder had the good sense to leave the same quintet in for most of the first half, interchanging Ann Scannell occasionally for Martin...
...both squads began to tire, the buckets passed back and forth regularly amidst erratic passing, fast breaks, and numerous Holy Cross personal fouls. Harvard sent in a whole new line, and the appearance of Pat Horne, Janet Judge, Rose Guarino and Kate Martin brought fresh energy to the weary hoopsters...