Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pattern for the Crimson's decisive 33 to 5 victory ever Boston University wrestlers was not in the opening round of last night's meet at the Blockhouse...
...South's industrial revolution had begun-but in the ugly classical pattern that was set a century before in the textile mills of England. Cotton mills moved south to take advantage of hand-to-mouth labor conditions. The "lint-heads," as cotton-mill workers were called, huddled together in drab mill villages, chronically in debt to the company store. They worked a 55-to 60-hour week for around $15 (as compared with a 48-to 54-hour week in New England for about...
...Vicious Pattern. Slender, studious Judge Streit was never much of an athlete himself, but as a five-term assemblyman and a judge for 14 of his 54 years, he knew just where to dig around in the shabby woodwork. Block by block he built up a ringing, 41-page indictment of big-time intercollegiate athletics. Said he: "The exposure before me is only the lifting of the curtain for a small glimpse of intercollegiate football and basketball, fired by commercialism and determination to win at all costs...
Behind the curtain, Judge Streit found a vicious pattern of commercialized recruiting that begins with athletic scholarships and falsified admission records, proceeds through four years of such cinch courses as music appreciation and finger painting, and winds up with a squad of athletic hirelings who may be easy touches for fast-talking fixers. Among his findings...
June's masquerade leads to standard complications-the risks of exposure, the consternation of her fiancé (Gig Young), the slow budding of love between the pianist and the impresario. But the pattern is neatly woven and filigreed with fun. Eager to truckle to his protegee's whims, Johnson flounders in backward child psychology and flinches under systematic torment by the overprecocious moppet. When he finds her smoking and gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with...