Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Ataturk's death, he was succeeded as President, legally and peacefully, by his handpicked successor, forceful soldier-administrator Ismet Inonu. For the next dozen years, the Inonu regime tried to maintain the Ataturk pattern. The people were kept on short rein, given few civil and personal liberties, and those grudgingly. But the momentum of progress continued...
Lavrenti Beria's fall from the Soviet hierarchy follows the pattern of his predecessors in running Russia's secret police, Fainsod observes...
...SECURITY. The man in the service today is a pawn in the murky chessboard maneuvers of Congress and the services heads, continually changing the size, shape and pattern of the armed forces. A 20-year pension plan, which induces a man to rejoin the service, might be rescinded the year after he comes in. An officer who has spent most of his professional life in some branch of specialized research is apt to find that Congress or the Defense Department has scrapped his whole branch overnight...
...take time-two years, perhaps longer-before something resembling victory comes in Indo-China, the general and his team have already given a taste of some of its potentialities. With a crisp stream of orders for reconnaissance, forays, ambush raids and harassing attacks, Navarre this summer broke the usual pattern of the monsoon, when the French in the past stopped fighting in order to build up supplies and strengthen their outposts, and the Reds sortied into villages to terrorize, recruit men and collect the rice on which they live...
...high prices that result (up 150% in the past ten years) is to increase U.S. newsprint output by 1) expanding newsprint mills by granting more fast tax write-offs to newsprint producers; 2) making newsprint from sugar-cane waste (bagasse), which "could well transform the [world's] pattern of newsprint production"; 3) encouraging other new sources of newsprint, using more hardwood instead of softwood for pulp. If these and other recommendations are followed, concluded the subcommittee, newsprint supply, which is now "far from reassuring," may become ample...