Word: pattern
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Furcolo had an excellent record as a member of the House of Representatives. So good in fact that in 1950 the Washington Press Club chose him as one of the ten best first-term legislators. His voting followed the pattern set by the Northern wing of the Democratic party--strongly in favor of internationalist legislation such as Point Four and Mutual Security Aid, extended reciprocal trade agreements, as well as liberal welfare and social legislation. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, he continually advocated strong defense appropriations...
...Guatemala and Honduras last week, voters went to the polls to elect their next . Presidents, and Brazil neared the end of the slow, complex tally (TIME, Oct. 18) of its off-year congressional vote. In all three nations, the overall pattern of results was reassuring for Western Hemisphere stability: with minor local exceptions, the voting was peaceful and orderly, and moderates and anti-Communists did better with the voters than extremists of either the left or right wing. The big winners: ¶ Brazil's conservative President Joao Cafe Filho, though not on any ballot, significantly bested the politically potent...
...antinomian" historians (who are devoted "to the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another' "), Toynbee organized history in a pattern. He treated not of nations or races or even "forces," but of civilizations which he saw living and dying in regular cycles. This concept was popularized by Germany's brilliant Historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), but where Spengler saw the rise and fall of civilizations inexorably fated, Toynbee believed them subject to man's free will and God's grace...
With prayer, clear thinking and hard work, let us go forward, not backward, from the U.N. There is a pattern by which nations can achieve collective security, even as states already have within the national framework...
Night Prayer. Colonel Shoup changed the take-off pattern so that jets turned away from built-up areas, schools and nearby mink ranche, (mother minks frightened by noise stop breeding). He invited community leaders to his base, briefed them on Soviet striking forces and on his defense mission, showed them a jet scramble. He notified the public of extra flight activities, spoke at civic clubs, showed groups around the base. Soon, Madison changed its mind about the Air Force. Said one elderly resident, formerly quick to complain when awakened at night by the banshee shriek of a scrambling...