Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gloucester, Mass, with a pair of California automobile license plates, dumped them into the harbor, swore he was washed up with Hollywood..... Maureen O'Hara followed the suit of Brenda Marshall and William Holden, had her appendix taken out... Deanna Durbin got laryngitis...Ralph Bellamy and Pat O'Brien helped two lifeguards struggling with a riptide rescue a foundering swimmer.... Under serious consideration as a new comedy team: Greta Garbo and Mickey Rooney....Back from summer barnstorming, Luise Rainer emoted to Manhattan reporters: "I saw cows . . . and then I knew that all my life I had been longing...
...sphere of influence in Persia. Britain was to influence in the southeast; Russia in the north. As for the poor Persians, their attitude was aptly summed up in a Punch cartoon of the period. It showed a Persian cat apprehensively sitting between a lion and a bear. "I will pat its head," says the bear, "and you shall stroke its tail." Pleads the cat: "But I have not been consulted...
...final two years ago, and the gallery began to look forward to another meeting-with Billows walloping Ward this time. But when the field narrowed down to two, Billows was on the sidelines. Facing Ward for the 36-hole final was Billows' conqueror: handsome Pat Abbott, Hollywood movie extra and onetime National Public Links golf champion...
...argument had ceased. Speaker Rayburn and his aides-tall, slack-jawed John McCormack of Massachusetts, the majority leader, and round-shouldered, wavy-haired Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, the whip-had done all they could. They had made frantic telephone calls to Democratic leaders in more than a dozen States, begging for additional pressure on reluctant members. Some Democratic State chairmen came to town, bringing plums and whips. In Vichy the Government had delivered itself to Hitler that afternoon. The U.S. Government had just renewed a warning to Japan. But against the bill to keep the U.S. Army under arms...
...Dutch stood pat. They had made their preparations. They expected major help from their neighbors, who shared their interests. But none of the world's weaker lands save heroic Greece had been ready to do so much defending of themselves by themselves...