Word: pats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted. He called the Committee's Democrats to the White House for a dose of the sort of persuasion Franklin Roosevelt used to exert. President Truman seemed resentful. He said the Senate had let him down. He expected that the House would not do the same. He stood pat on his program. He was no longer the "good old Harry" who liked to visit the Hill and chum with his old cronies. He was aggressively Mr. President...
Grey, ramrod-backed Major General Patrick Jay Hurley came back to Washington last week, presumably to resign as the U.S. Ambassador to China. The handsome, 62-year-old Oklahoman refused to confirm reports that President Truman would soon release him from his war job. But it was obvious that Pat Hurley's mission was ended...
China and the U.S. would agree that the mission had been highly successful-or at least coincided with success. China had its treaty with Russia and it was peacefully debating with the once rambunctious Chinese Communists. No one, least of all Pat Hurley, would contend that the U.S. Ambassador had brought all this about. Chiang Kai-shek and Premier T. V. Soong had achieved the treaty with Moscow without outside help, and the treaty had immediately broken the back of Chinese Communist resistance...
...People ask me offhand to explain to them 'all about this modern art.' They want the answer in a series of pat phrases between drinks. But . . . unless you state your thesis clearly-from the ground up, you are simply adding to the sum of confusion on the subject." So writes Minnesota-born Abstractionist Hilaire Hiler in his new book, Why Abstract? (New Directions...
...Only three of his wartime-style regulars -Newhouser, Trout and Greenberg (a better first baseman than outfielder) -could be sure of 1946 jobs. Probable 1946 lineup: Outfielders Dick Wakefield, Barney McCosky, Pat Mullin; Hank Greenberg 1b, Anse Moore 2b, Billy Hitchcock ss, Pinky Higgins 3b; Birdie Tebbetts...