Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other canyon residents worked desperately to save their property. In Mandeville Canyon, Beverly Hills Psychologist Philip Flexo and his wife Pat shoveled day and night to divert a stream of mud and water from their $250,000 home. No matter what happened to the house, Flexo vowed not to leave the canyon permanently. Said he: "We moved here to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Despite the fires, rains, flood and muds, I won't move...
Burns points out that Harvard receives no money from towing. "Pat's Tow Service does all that," he says. Prominently displayed in the parking office is a letter from the tow service dated Oct. 20, 1977, which states, "We are unable to accept checks from Harvard students..." Burns explains that every check was bouncing, and "Pat was getting burned...
...Menichella, Pat Jakobsen and Rick Kirk also recorded season or lifetime bests. Menichella's 200-yd butterfly (1:54.4) and medly fly relay split (51.0) are close to what he did at Easterns last year. Jakobsen's 2:11.76 in the 200 breaststroke and Kirk's relay swim (47.3) anchoring the victorious medly were career best times...
...Momentum. Like a fellow named Edward "Ned" Coll, who distinguished himself from other Democratic candidates at a televised debate two days before the 1972 primary by waving a large rubber rat at the cameras and declaring, "This represents the real problem of violence in America." Or "Laugh-In" comedian Pat Paulsen's short-lived write-in campaign. Remember Sam Yorty's 1972 New Hampshire bid? No one else does. Last time around, another gaggle of absurdist candidates spiced the winter grind: Stanley "Vote Alphabetically" Arnold (290 votes), the Rev. Arthur "We need to put Jesus Christ back into politics" Blessit...
...nations represented here - Austria, for example, where buses are contented and well behaved - but the Olympic delegations from these nations are made up of big shots who ride in limousines in their homelands, and they no longer know how to smile at a bus that has lowered its ears, pat its flank, and get it to open its doors. No one is quite sure where the buses go when they are not sulkily picking up people at the luge run, but there is no doubt that the ban on private cars has cleared the streets of traffic. State troopers standing...