Word: pats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before the historic Senate battle on civil rights legislation reached its climax, Jim McConaughy laid down clearly and accurately the complex strategic and tactical lines, furnished the reporting on a cover about Georgia's Senator Richard Russell. Just six weeks ago he traveled to California, reported that Democrat Pat Brown would lead Republican Bill Knowland by 600,000 votes in the pivotal gubernatorial primary. McConaughy was off-by a fraction...
...idols upon the slightest criticism from adults will doubtless be able to dream up some excuse for the deplorable antics of our latest good-will ambassador, Jerry Lee Lewis. I wonder how many of them, after reading your story, bothered to turn to the Education section and read how Pat Boone, a really good singer, can also win fame (and a degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia) and still be a nice guy with a spotless personal life...
Gathering forces for a surprise attack on the Administration's stand-pat tax bill last week, Florida's handsome Senator George Smathers found plenty of allies from the South and West. A top Capitol Hill specialist in transportation affairs, Smathers wanted to kill off the $700 million-a-year federal transportation taxes-3% on freight, 10% on passenger tickets, 4½% on pipelined oil, 4? a ton on coal shipments. And the South and West had long been grumbling that the freight tax discriminates unfairly against states far removed from the big-city markets and industrial centers...
...Candidate Goodwin J. Knight, the incumbent Governor-indicated polite but firm refusal to accept Big Bill's kindness. They prefer going it alone, since they think that Knowland's unpopular right-to-work program is hurting party chances, and furthermore, that Nominee Knowland cannot beat Democratic Nominee Pat Brown, who led him by 606,000 votes in the cross-filed primary votes. Cf Los Angeles Lawyer Ed Shattuck, Knowland's campaign manager and Republican national committeeman, quit the Knowland campaign. Shattuck was criticized because he ran an ineffectual organization and, as a committeeman, should have been representing...
...Wholesale, can still stamp the imprint of a heel on the printed page better than anyone else. But, though he knows his way around the jungle of a conniving city, he gets swiftly lost in the desert of the human soul. George Hurst's redemption is so pat and implausible, the world he aspires to so trivially empty, that readers may wish that Weidman's heels had no need to become heroes...