Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malcolm McCorquodale, an earnest lawyer from Houston, set the pattern of the Ikemen's plea. Said he: "For 20 years we Republicans have extended a welcome to all Democrats to join the Republican Party and make Texas a two-party state. On May 6, history was made. We had more people attending our conventions than the Democrats had, and you all know that we should be glad to get them. The struggle to exclude these newcomers is led by a few leaders who don't want them . . . The issue is simple honesty...
...Stearns1 Walk. The stories of what had happened at the precinct and county level fell into a definite pattern. Harris County (Houston) was typical. Among the pro-Taft rump sessions was one in the home precinct of the Zweifel National Committeewoman, Mrs. Carl C. Stearns. After a big majority of the 175 voters at the regular caucus went for Ike, Mrs. Stearns, her husband and 25 other Taft supporters walked out and held their own clambake. This and other rump sessions in the precincts brought about contests for 69 delegate seats at the Harris County convention. But 146 pro-Eisenhower...
Since the "pantie riot" at Ann Arbor, no U.S. coed has been sure that she would not be victimized by one. So far, pantie riots have broken out on at least 16 U.S. campuses. Most of them followed a set pattern. First came the rumble of the approaching male mob, a signal which sent every red-blooded girl running to a window. Then came an exchange of hoots, jeers, cries and threats between street and dormitory, the indignant protests of a faculty member, the struggle with hastily summoned cops. Then came the invasion, the slamming of doors, the thump...
Minor mistreatment of prisoners was also part of the German pattern, in which superiors mistreat subordinates, Dr. Cohen reasons. Most difficult to explain, he found, were deliberately planned tortures. He feels these cases cannot be dismissed as simple sadism. Rather, he believes, they resulted from Freud's drive of aggression, heightened by frustration. "Normally this drive is counteracted by mental inhibitions provided by society, but Nazi society supported this aggression...
...tour prospectus declares that the houses will be displayed "from top to bottom" with "kitchens, living quarters, and the whole pattern of living... on view...