Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SHIPLER holds the Jews to a much higher standard than the Arabs, and rightly so. Still, if his admittedly vague "solution" to the Arab-Jewish problem appears especially pat and simplistic--they will only find peace, he writes, "by looking into each other's eyes"--it is because over the past 40 years, the Israelis have stood much taller than their Arab foes...
...Pat Robertson tried his best to look unruffled, but the charge rankled. Did the famed televangelist, as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 1951, ask his father, then a U.S. Senator from Virginia, to use his pull to help the young man avoid combat duty in Korea? After fielding reporters' questions about the allegation, Robertson last week launched a counterattack. He filed two libel suits for $35 million each in Washington federal court against his accusers, former Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey Jr. and Democratic Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana. "I may become a candidate for President...
...lawyer in Palo Alto, Calif. In January 1951 he left San Diego on the U.S.S. Breckinridge along with Robertson and some 2,000 other Marines. The ship stopped at Yokosuka and Kobe, Japan; Robertson did not continue on to Korea. "My single distinct memory," McCloskey wrote, "is of Pat, with a big grin on his face, standing on the dock . . . saying something like, 'So long, you guys -- good luck,' and telling us that his father (Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson) had got him out of combat duty." Several months later, according to McCloskey, Robertson and five other officers...
...defensive side of the ball, Brown stacks up lots of size in 247-lb. middle guard Pat Murphy and 254-lb. tackle Bill Perry. Linebacker Brian Murphy is tough against the pass, and cornerback Tom Dugan has snagged a couple of interceptions...
...members of Citizens For Limited Taxation (CLT) are not happy about the new law. "Their's [the Legislature's Tax Cap Bill] is nothing but a hoax to keep the people from voting for Question Three [the CLT's version of a tax cap] on the referendum," said Pat Warnick, a CLT spokesman...