Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...82nd Congress, which concluded a ten-month session last week, has a mixed and contradictory record, hard to assess in the familiar pattern of two-party politics. In fact, Congress in 1951 demonstrated a marked further decline in the two-party system...
Nevertheless, the future pattern was plain. From now on, U.S. industry would have to run a whole lot faster merely to stand still...
Conducting the Beethoven Concerto is no easy task. The accompaniment is more than mere background music; it is of vital thematic importance. In fact, the persistent five-beat pattern provides the basis for the whole first movement. Munch's direction was entirely satisfactory, except for his failure to bring the accompaniment out strongly enough in the finale...
...They still keep their animals in the courtyards and cultivate their scanty crops with tools that are not much better. They still bake their bread in mud ovens that have not changed appreciably since the discovery of agriculture. It took the industrial revolution to make much change in the pattern of village life that was fixed 7,000 years...
...first quarter Saturday, although the Crimson offense looked sharper than heretofore, the game began to develop according to the usual pattern. After an exchange of punts and fumbles put the Cadets on their own 45, quarterback Pete Vann threw a scoring pass to halfback Tom Bell, who was all by himself behind the Crimson secondary. The play, however, was called back because the over-anxious Army backs were in motion...