Word: pattonisms
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Jesse Helms should have to look the poor of this country in the face, especially the children, and explain why Government support of the poor is being drastically curtailed while subsidies to the tobacco industry, which is causing cancer in many Americans, are not touched. Larry G. Patton Houston...
...This is Pete calling in for Cottage. Negative on wonks in Patton 96. Dirty story, grubby room. That's right: negative...
...work, of course, largely because Bradley was-in sharp contrast to flamboyant General George S. Patton Jr.-a methodical, textbook commander who shunned flashy or risky tactics. Instead, he trusted meticulous preparation for slow, cautious assaults that held a solid chance of success. When a fellow officer, Major General William B. Kean Jr., expressed a mild worry about the awesome task of planning for the Normandy invasion, Bradley replied: "But, Bill, who in the Army knows more about it than...
...hock-faced man in his 50s with a gentle disposition, a teenage girlfriend and an absurdist's command of the bureaucratic vocabulary-"Be reminded: female officers will, according to policy, perform all in-depth searches of female suspects." Howard Hunter (James Sikking) is a SWAT man with a Patton complex; he shoots his way into liquor stores and out of toilet stalls, and warns his boss that "you wouldn't want to be accused of having a bunch of daisies where your cinch belt ought to be." Detective Mick Belker...
...Oklahoma department-store fortune and a student of Barkouras', was arrested at 4 a.m. while changing a wiretap connected to Sternlofs home phone. Soon afterward, traveling in seven cars, 14 FBI agents went to Barkouras' foundation to seize records. At a preliminary hearing an assistant to Patton shouted, "Anthony is the pawn of Barkouras!" The jury found Anthony guilty of wiretapping. At the sentencing, Judge Lee West compared the feud between Barkouras and his critics to a street-gang rumble. The Justice Department and FBI are now investigating whether officials may have gone too far in their search...