Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Barker Center: A butter pat on the ceiling...
...quarters without skipping an edition and began publishing page-long lists of personal messages phoned in by townsfolk--messages such as "To Mary O'Leary from Vicky Misialek: If you need a place to stay, please call." Same thing on radio. A woman named Marci heard that elfin mayor Pat Owens, elected in a landslide last year after assisting four mayors over 32 years, had fled her house with only two sets of clothes. So Marci called KNOX-AM to offer more...
This raises the question of whether to rebuild in the low-lying downtown, and Pat Owens says there won't be an answer for weeks. Kim Holmes, who lost two restaurants, says he wants to. But even though he was one of only 1,000 or so with flood insurance, his losses are crippling. "I've got 3 ft. of water inside, with chairs and tables floating around the room...
...year-old father, Willard Guerard, had to be rescued by helicopter from his farm near East Grand Forks. Asked where his daughter, who has gone from virtual anonymity to daily appearances on national television, got her wits and her will, he said, "From me." As a girl, he added, Pat farmed potatoes with her dad, and feeling the earth in your hands prepares you for anything. "The quality of life here is real good," he explained...
...DIED. PAT PAULSEN, 69, doleful comedian whose mock campaigns for President may have fooled even himself; of complications from cancer; in Tijuana, Mexico. The deadpan Paulsen sharpened his stump wit on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, opposing sex education ("Let the kids today learn it where we did--in the gutter") and declaring a war on poverty "by shooting 400 beggars a week." His 1968 run for the White House won him about 200,000 write-in votes...