Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squash team won its fourth match of the Metropolitan League season against only one defeat yesterday at the Union Boat Club, 4 to 1. At first and fifth singles Charlie Hamm and Fred Byron won in three straight games, but the middle singles did not follow the same pattern, as Tom Lee won 3 to 1, Pete Lund won 3 to 2, and Kent Allen bowed 3 to 2 in the day's closest match...
...other matches, with the exception of number six singles, and followed the same pattern with each man winning with little or no difficulty. At the six position, Larry Sears was extended to the limit before winning...
Personality: A devout Methodist from the middle class, he is exception to Tory pattern of leadership, which is Anglican, Etonian and upper class. He lives modestly in a Belgravia apartment with his young (27) wife, his former secretary whom he married in 1951, and three-year-old daughter; dresses immaculately in Savile Row suits, sports a Foreign Office bowler with aplomb, is supremely sure of himself...
...they fizzle), programs from almost anywhere are apt to show up almost anywhere else. The pictures will seldom be good, and they will seldom last long. If the foreign station has a different line image (Britain uses 405 lines, the U.S. 525 lines), its picture will be a meaningless pattern of distorting interferences. U.S. viewers in some cases can adjust their sets to pick up the foreign picture, but then they will not get U.S. pictures...
...marks and a "courtesy degree." As a schoolboy, he had once spent one and sixpence for a horse on its way to the slaughterhouse. He wanted the glory of riding it through Kilkenny town. It fell dead beneath him. Pride and its fall became the pattern of his life...