Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...autobiography, Pat Robertson described his brief 1959 ministry in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in a chapter titled "Rats, Roaches and Bedbugs." With the televangelist harboring such fond memories of the local insect population, it seemed strange that Robertson would select this slowly gentrifying black neighborhood to formally declare his G.O.P. presidential candidacy...
...career at the same time, without a man in her life? Can she keep up with clients and ambitious underlings and still have time to find a trustworthy nanny and to work on getting her child into the "right" preschool? As it often does, Baby Boom offers a pat and unsurprising answer--"Nope...
Biden was just about the last politician who could survive such an onslaught. Any number of Democratic pros were happy to see him stumble; Biden had surrounded himself with aides, notably Pollster Pat Caddell, who struck them as arrogant. Caddell particularly antagonized Democratic elders by talking about leading an "inside insurgency" that would capture the party for the baby-boom generation...
...splintered Democratic race. Since the nomination campaign began with high hopes, all the news has been negative for the party: Hart's and Biden's crackups, the refusal of such powers as Mario Cuomo and Sam Nunn to enter, the persistence of the demeaning seven-dwarfs metaphor. (Unless Pat Schroeder officially enters, that will have to be changed to the six -- what? Survivors?) About the only consolation is that Biden did not come close to threatening Hart's world speed record for political self-immolation. Biden quit the race eleven days after the first negative stories broke; Hart...
...normal development and in no way give children a head start," says Dr. Suzanne Haefele, a committee member. Besides, parents do a lot of the same things on their own, points out Pediatrician George Sterne of the Tulane Medical Center, such as bicycling their babies' legs or playing pat-a-cake when changing diapers. "Infants are going to exercise on their own unless you keep them in a closet," he notes. Older tots get ample exercise by fooling around in the backyard or climbing trees. Organized activities, child experts agree, should wait until about the age of six. "Our society...