Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never tell from the ballot which candidate came from what party. As a result, many a candidate said as little as possible about his party affiliation, and won both sides of the primary. Last week Californians went to the polls under a new primary law and set a different pattern...
...keep on talking, if only to blame the West for the impending break. They had their bait ready in military maps. Though political talks were deadlocked, the Communists might tempt a new French government to keep talking by yielding an acre here, a salient there, on the tried & true pattern of Panmunjom...
...proceedings against the three followed an almost identical pattern. On June 17, 1953, each was summoned without prior notice and without counsel to appear before an ad hoc committee composed of the president of the college, Admiral J.L. Kauffman; the chairman of the board of trustees, P.E. Foerderer; the school's dean, Dr. George A. Bennet; and D. Hays Sollis-Cohen, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and member of the board...
...this would lead to a "dishonorable" peace. But Bidault seized the crumb, carried it off to Paris and a meeting with the Cabinet. He returned with orders to examine the proposal prayerfully and to suggest a modification: troops should stay in their present general positions, thus creating a smallpox pattern instead of large divisions, which would amount to partition. At week's end both sides had agreed to summon military commanders from Indo-China to study the regrouping and make recommendations. Pleaded Bidault: "There is need for haste here to save lives." Since he was thinking about French lives...
...they could not pay off their debt. To buy a house in those days, a man might need half the price for a down payment, often had to take out first, second and third mortgages at up to 10% interest. By its insurance guarantees, FHA brought about the national pattern of liberal, single-mortgage financing at low interest rates. Now a man can buy an $8,000 house with $1,600 down and 20 years to pay, at 4^% interest. Result: an estimated 60% of U.S. families own their homes today v. 44% in 1940. Mortgage foreclosures have dropped (only...