Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Close Pattern. He moved with easy familiarity through the vast areas of Government, from war to the conservation of river valleys, from taxes to segregation-specifying where new executive policy was required, where legislative action was needed, where he would launch new fact-finding surveys and studies before making changes. The pattern hung together because Ike knew that no essential program could succeed until, first of all. the U.S. righted its own approach to foreign policy...
Commenting on the new athletic arrangements, Buck replied strongly to a CRIMSON editorial saying, "We must break down the pattern that to participate in athletics, a boy has to pay at every turn. Our old policy has prevented boys from taking advantage of our athletic facilities. Athletics, and for that matter other activities called 'extra-curricular,' must be recognized as functions of education. To be honest and decent about such recognition we feel the cost should be included in the tuition...
...Pattern of an American...
Your Jan. 12 article about Thornton Wilder gives an impression of one whose life and writings are without aim or pattern; and that impression, I believe, is correct. Wilder is the best representative of the American he describes-lonely, nomadic and insubmissive...
John Cooper Fitch is a lanky, personable man whose only noticeable departure from the pattern of his age group (35) is a compulsion to go barreling down a highway faster than anyone else. Ever since he was old enough to tell a camshaft from a drive shaft, Johnny has been driving autos, preferably fast ones. Last week "Jean Feetch," as rabid French sports-car enthusiasts call him, was invited by Rootes, Ltd., makers of Britain's Sunbeam-Talbot, to drive in the Monte Carlo Rally, a 72-hour, 2,000-mile grind, as testing...