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Immigration enforcement officers had only come by once in the past five years, when he was out, Surchi said during his sales patter.

The patter of the street and the patter of the studio share a relentless optimism for the big break.

He was 27, an aspiring cop with a Hollywood apartment and a glib patter that reminded people of a used-car salesman.

We banged out meals for a while, Lydia amusing us with her usual patter, Tommy dunking clams and shrimp into hot grease, the usual ebb and flow of a busy kitchen.

In 1964, he got a job at the R&B station KSOL, where he brought the Beatles and Rolling Stones into the station’s playlist and showed off his slick patter.