Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent local elections, the Moslem League Party, founders of Pakistan and hitherto its absolute rulers, found itself overwhelmingly repudiated by the voters. It was faced with two alternatives: to seize power through the army, after the classical pattern of one-party dictatorship, or to rule by the traditional democratic process of political horse-trading and parliamentary maneuver...
Communist leaders have a way of disappearing from sight and then, when the rumors of their death are beginning to fill the world press, of turning up alive and kicking. Last week in Tokyo, the pattern was reversed: a Communist leader whom everybody counted alive was acknowledged to have died almost two years...
...Huron's rocky northern rim, where the Canadian Pacific railroad and the Trans-Canada Highway skirt the jack pine forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar empire...
...socialites drink so heavily? "In the first place," Editor Deshais wrote, "most every woman who considers herself a part of the social swim lunches at clubs or restaurants four or five days a week. Part of the pattern is to have a little something-or two or three little somethings-on the rocks before the fruit cup is brought on. This could mean an intake of from one to five ounces...
Workable But Not Liberal. Guatemala's new code, by contrast, gave every promise that the pumps will be clanking soon. It, too, adopted the 50-50 formula and other major provisions in the world pattern. Three big oil companies-California Standard, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), and Conorada Petroleum Corp. (a combine formed by the Continental, Ohio and Amerada oil companies)-seemed ready to sign...