Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cracking the Code. Their big problem was to crack Michigan's defense code-a highly complex system of interrelated maneuvers which football savants describe by such terms as "angles," "loops," "converging" and "dealing in." If Army could unscramble the pattern so as to sense, a few seconds in advance, what combinations Michigan was likely to use in certain situations, it would give the team a priceless edge. Blaik cracked the code thoroughly enough to devote most of spring and autumn practice to drilling his boys in Michiganisms...
Future negotiators might be able to answer some of the problems raised by the Ford plan. But the basic pattern had been set. Trying to avoid a fourth round of wage rises, U.S. industry had no alternative but to agree to the large, new experiment in one way or another and hope for the best...
...schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally I was in the copper shops...
Snapped George H. Love, president of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. and spokesman for the northern operators: "The strike is wholly unjustified. This is the old U.M.W. pattern of creating a national emergency to force the public to pay more for coal...
George Bluestone's "The Sewing Machine" commands the most respect. The characters are shrouded in pages of dialogue; at first they seem to exist as impersonal objects, not speaking but spoken about. Yet gradually they assume personalities, and fall into a pattern from which emerges a sympathetic story of disjointed family life...