Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shall in general wage no political campaign in the customary pattern. Instead, my principal purpose if renominated will be to inform the American people accurately through means of mass communication...
...friends and family. Over the years he has established a pleasant puttering partnership with his next-door neighbor and longtime friend, Ralph Davis, a lighting company inspector. Davis plays an Art Carney support to Hall's Jackie Gleason, and their weekend rituals usually follow the same pattern. On Saturday mornings, until recently, Hall would get up around 5 a.m. and look over at Davis' house to see if the kitchen light was on. If he decided his friend was out of bed, Hall would go next door, and over a pot of strong coffee the two would discuss...
Thanks for the Feb. 20 article on Governor Frank J. Lausche. The one characteristic of this very able man is his refusal to bow to various pressure groups. He has made mistakes, but by following the conservative pattern of testing the water with one's toes instead of diving in over one's head, he has indeed set an example in Ohio of what an honest, conservative government can accomplish-an example that might be noted by Stevenson, Harriman and Kefauver...
...pattern of the Chinese Communist terror in his 1949 tract, On People's Democratic Dictatorship. Said Mao: "The reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinion." One of Mao's lieutenants, writing in the Peking Current Affairs, wryly but grimly spelled out how to proceed: "Execution means fundamental physical elimination of counterrevolutionaries, and is of course the most thorough measure for depriving counter-revolutionaries of the conditions for counterrevolution ary activity." What gave the Chinese terror speed and weight was tested techniques borrowed from the Soviet Union at a time when Stalin...
...Last year Chaplin sold his share to Krim-Benjamin for an undisclosed sum (TIME, March 14, 1955). Last week Mary Pickford sold her share too, and the Krim-Benjamin group became 100% owners of the company that has done more than any other single force to change the industrial pattern of Hollywood...