Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Standing Pat...
...complete three unofficial rituals during their undergraduate career, the first and foremost being the "spraying" of old John Harvard. The second and most risque is to have sex in the stacks of Widener Library. The third and most aerodynamically challenging was for first-years to flip a pat of butter onto the ceiling of the Freshman Union. But with the relocation of first-year dining to Annenberg Hall--whose vaulted ceiling has made the feat almost impossible--a perfectly good threesome has been ruined. Obviously, Harvard students need something else to test just what they're made...
...Friday, over a meal of spaghetti in her parents' hotel room, the 15-year-old just wanted her mother's comfort. "It's O.K. to be scared. It's good to be scared," said Pat Lipinski. "But you can do it." After that, Tara was back in character and on the way to an upset and the fulfillment of a legend--not just the gold medal but the record as the youngest Olympic figure-skating champion ever. To do that she had to overcome a rival whose eloquence on ice had moved judges to tears. Michelle Kwan, just 17 herself...
Most other shows have been through several hosts: believe it or not, Chuck Woolery (of "Love Connection" fame) hosted "Wheel of Fortune" before the legendary Pat Sajak took over. Further, as die-hard Wheel fans may recall, Sajak took a hiatus in the early 1990s to try his hand at late night television, leaving the show in the hands of Vanna White and several short-lived stiffs at a time when contestants still shopped for merchandise after each round. Some hosts have done double duty, like Alex Trebek, who at one time simultaneously hosted both "Jeopardy" and "Classic Concentration...
...Pat Robertson is dead wrong about the role that atheists play in society. Far from destroying its very foundations, we aim to protect them and to change the society they uphold for the better...