Word: pattern
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...present Administration seems to be proceeding on a somewhat different line. It has evidently discarded the view that Soviet world action is imminent. The new strategic assumption seems to be that we are in for a world struggle of indefinite duration and of uncertain pattern-a test which may go on for years without a major collision...
...pessimists want an aristocracy of intelligence. They want everyone to fit into the pattern. Today, with a broader background, that is no longer possible...
According to Brooks, "the pattern of November may usually be expected to continue on into winter. At present there is on snow cover for hundreds of miles to the north. Even Mt. Washington is not snow covered and there is daily automobile traffic to the summit. There is no white surface to reflect the sunshine and keep the air cold by day and there is no insulating layer of snow to prevent the warm November heat in the saturated ground from reaching the air readily...
Dinkas & Bongos. That was at Juba, 750 miles south of Khartoum (pop. 82,700). The pattern was the same last week all over the 1,000,000 sq. mi. of desert, swamp and irrigated cotton land of the Sudan. In an area larger than the U.S. east of the Mississippi, 1,250,000 tribesmen, nine out of ten of them illiterate, were riding on bullocks or camels, trekking across dunes and marshes, to 2,000 polling booths, where the magic papers lay. Six of Sudan's eight millions are Northerners, who worship Allah but still practice female circumcision...
...there Cullmann stops. To construe the text as warrant of the papal succession, he argues, is something vastly different from clearing its literal meaning. Peter's leadership, he says, was an "example and pattern," nothing more. It was not until the third century that a bishop of Rome cited the Matthew text in support of his primacy. Says Cullmann: "It is arguing in a circle . . . to assert that, since on the one hand the promise of Jesus to Peter exists and on the other hand the fact exists that Rome exercised a primacy from a relatively early date...