Word: patters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like someone had sneaked up on me and breathed heavily on my skin," said a G.I. They slowly counted three, turned around and looked at the huge fireball seven miles away (see NEWS IN PICTURES). It was bright red, and churning. Big Brother kept up a calm, steady patter, explaining what was happening. The blast wave rustled by. One paratrooper confusedly stood up too soon. The returning wave knocked him flat. A deep, sharp "whoomp" echoed and rumbled off the mountain walls...
...certainly striven to conduct myself as my mother would wish me to," said William Marshall Boyle to a Senate investigating committee. Many citizens mistakenly assumed that this statement by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a piece of pious patter. But Bill Boyle was in sober earnest. His mother is still honored in Kansas City as one of Boss Tom Pendergast's best precinct workers of the 1920s. Friends of the family, discussing Bill Boyle, say somewhat condescendingly that he is a nice, pleasant fellow; Clara, his mother, now retired, was "the politician of the family...
...know-it-all. He advises readers on such diverse subjects as how to rid their chimneys of bats, how to tell a male cocklebur from a female cocklebur (a female has burs), and whether armadillos are good to eat (they are). No one catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more: "Poo-peepee (a seaman who is peeped at from a poop deck), raccoonnookkeeper (the custodian of a coon hollow) and barroom-moodduller (one who dulls the jovial mood...
Soriano travels about 100,000 miles a year, has big, comfortable homes in Manila, Madrid, Southern France and Manhattan. In his world-girdling trips, he keeps a sharp eye open for new businesses. Says Soriano: "I'm neither an introvert, a handshaker nor a patter on the back. If there's anything I enjoy doing, it's planning big industries. I get a kick...
...Broadway after wowing London for three years in Annie Get Your Gun, is a good showman too, and a very fetching singer. With a voice as hearable as it is husky, she rolls out Give a Little, Get a Little Love, rat-tat-tats the lyrics of a crisp patter song, If You Hadn...