Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acrimony between the Radical Socialists and the M.R.P. was solved only when the M.R.P. got an L-shaped seating pattern whose toe extended leftward across the front of the Radical benches...
Along with the H-bomb decision were "far-reaching effects." Britain's new $4.3 billion military budget follows the U.S. pattern of reducing overall expenditures (by some $286 million) while stepping up the emphasis on air power, the atom and electronic warfare. Main features: Air Force: The R.A.F., for the first time, will get the lion's share of British defense spending. Its "primary task'': to build up a striking force of atom-bomber squadrons as the "main contribution to the deterrent." The air defense of Britain will rest on delta- and swept-wing jets like...
...still too recent to fully appreciate. A single superbomb, exploded close to the ground, can contaminate a state the size of Maryland with lethal radioactivity. A "small-scale" attack [on the U.S.] with 28 bombs restricted to the industrial heart of America could produce an inverted L-shaped pattern over the northeastern states and an irregular fallout bracketing much of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. The "atomized" area would be occupied by 50 million Americans. Over two-thirds of the U.S. industrial production centers in the same areas...
...Communism by sending every pitiable old woman in the open party to prison for five years as a conspirator. You would think it was something a man would prefer to forget, but Humphrey glories in it. His conduct is a rather extreme [example] of what has become a habit pattern for most of our liberal paladins. None get better, some get worse, and the best of them earn what credit they deserve by standing still. That is why Harry Cain deserves an award of some sort. Harry Cain has gotten better. As a Senator, Harry Cain...
...California, where 80% of college and university students attend public institutions, the pattern of the future is already well established. The state now has 66 publicly supported junior colleges, and the University of California has never shied away from opening up new campuses. Elsewhere, says President Samuel Gould of Antioch College, the urban college or university may play an increasingly bigger role in taking up the slack. "The idea of a central college with a number of branches located in strategic and nearby places will become the accepted permanent pattern." Businessmen and community leaders will serve as part-time teachers...