Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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delegate at the truce talks. On the eastern front last week, attacking South Koreans were driven back by counterattacking North Koreans. South of Kumsong, the Reds' central front bastion, U.N. forces gained more than a mile against heavy machine-gun fire. But the general pattern was one of watchful waiting...
...story seemed to fit a familiar pattern: Was this not another case of a big, nasty, imperialist nation bullying a smaller, law-abiding country? As a matter of fact, the injured party was Great Britain and the arrogant bully was little Egypt...
Labor shortages in general are not a problem, but there is a crying need for specialists: engineers, machinists, tool & die makers, molders and pattern makers, etc. The engineering shortage is the most acute. Last year U.S. colleges and universities turned out 52,000 engineers. This year 38,000 will be graduated. The 1952 forecast...
...patient's family tree shows clearly that she is the offspring of a father-bleeder and a mother-carrier. Her blood meets all the tests for true hemophilia. The doctors are sure that they have found a case to fit the classic Mendelian pattern. But they have no idea how she came to be born alive, or how she survived the hazards of growing up, menstruation and pregnancy...
Fourth Estate. After returning from Paris in 1920, Thurber went to work as a reporter on the Columbus Dispatch, where he stayed three years, mostly covering the City Hall beat. To Thurber's city editor, the pattern of a perfect lead for all stories whatsoever was: "John Holtsapple, 63, prominent Columbus galosh manufacturer, died of complications last night at his home, 396 N. Persimmon Blvd." Any attempts by the staff to get wit or originality into the paper usually landed on the spike. The city editor, who began by addressing Thurber as "Author" and "Phi Beta Kappa," came...