Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hinton's experience included Harvard and Cornell, where he majored in dairy farming. In World War II, he bucked the national pattern not by noisy rebellion and not with unshakable conviction. He registered as a conscientious objector because "we ought to help one another . . . instead of killing each other...
With fervor, Eden cried: "We shall be creating a new pattern of friendship throughout these Middle-Eastern regions . . . It is the only way we can hope to work with those countries. We cannot hope to work with them by putting 20,000, 30,000, 80,000 men there and telling them what to do. They simply will not do what they are told, and that leads to endless trouble...
...talk of going ahead firmly with a Southeast Asia treaty to protect what was left. But no sooner had Eden returned than Churchill summoned the Cabinet. Having "achieved" an Indo-China peace, Churchill was thinking that now was the time, when the Communists were being "reasonable," to repeat the pattern and get a settlement with the Communists on Germany. Molotov, who had planned it that way, promptly helped the move along by his proposal for a new conference on "European security...
...reached normal height and weight by the age of four. They were all children of average-sized mothers (average 63½ in., 135 lbs.). The laggard 60% were children of small women. Concluded the report: "The height of a mother gives a better indication of the likely growth pattern of her premature baby than does her baby's weight at birth, the medical history of pregnancy, or the length of gestation...
...Edifice Complex. The startling ten-story mosaic pattern is the latest work of Architect-Muralist Juan O'Gorman, a shy, hard-working artist of 49, who likes to keep trying for new ideas in expression...