Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Drew's mother Pat Golden, postmaster in a nearby town, was at work on the day of the shooting. That afternoon, she had her son on her mind, having just learned that there had been a shooting at the school. Pat withdrew quietly to a back room, where a friend heard her crying softly, worried for Drew's safety. Her husband Dennis called to say authorities didn't know the whereabouts of their son. "Then," recalls Joyce Prater, a friend and former colleague who had stopped by for stamps, "the phone rang again. Pat let out a terrible, terrible scream...
With Pietramala on the sidelines, Harvard will have to concern itself with a scrappy and very athletic Cornell team. Leading the way for the Big Red are two All-Ivy performers--junior attackman Pat Dutton and senior midfielder Ian Hafner, who scored five goals against Harvard last year in an 18-16 loss...
...world of feeling to the world of work. Sweet and refreshing, though at times so light the lines dissolve on the page--"I'm never going to sleep/ with Martin Amis/ or anyone famous."--the verses go down easy, like frosty cocktails. Some of the imagery is old and pat, as when Garrison compares a married couple to a pair of birds on a telephone wire, but much of it is new and cheeky: "Sometimes it's funny, this after-hour when/ whatever hasn't happened between us/ hasn't happened again..." As Garrison's book proves, not all good...
...With reporting by Jay Branegan and J.F.O. McAllister/Washington, Dan Cray and Margot Hornblower/Los Angeles, Pat Dawson/Billings, Rod Paul/Portsmouth and Elaine Rivera/Southampton
...expected, the end of civilization as we know it was announced on the back pages. On Feb. 10, 1996, in Philadelphia, while America was distracted by the rise of Pat Buchanan, the fall of Phil Gramm and other trifles, something large happened. German philosophers call such large events world-historical. This was larger. It was species-defining. The New York Times carried it on page...