Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country's chief law enforcer, was guilty not of the wimpy word "scandals," but of "crimes." Gingrich must also deliver on the Dobsonesque agenda that he once put on the back burner and embrace anti-gay, antiabortion, pro-gun candidates. Dobson, with more adherents than Ralph Reed or Pat Robertson, wants respect, and he wants it yesterday...
...word on Fullerton is that it plays a brand of baseball similar to the Crimson's preferring the hit-and-run to the long ball, beating opponents with the short game that Harvard seems to have down pat...
Baseball, as Sandel intimates, often serves as a sacred space, whether in the bleachers or in the Bronx bars that no doubt drank a round in Boomer's honor after Paul O'Neill gloved Pat Meares...
...suspense and the brilliant writing of Purple America is sustained almost through the entire book; the last scene seems a bit maudlin, a bit too pat an ending to the complex situation Moody describes so movingly throughout the book. Everything else in the book, however, is as near perfection as you're likely to find in fiction these days...
...PAT RILEY Brawling? A Riley team? It's hard to believe this guy also coached Showtime with Magic and Kareem...