Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House athletics follow the University pattern, they are "representative," largely through the efforts of a small nucleus of athletes who play on all House teams. This situation makes Dunster ideal for amateur athletes who want to participate in organized sport without facing much competition to make a team...
...Found: A Pattern. Estes Kefauver was used to such evasive replies and sullen reticence; they were the stock-in-trade of the nation's leading mystery men. But in grudging admissions and half-explanations under persistent questioning, by matching a piece here with another piece 2.000 miles away, Kefauver and his Senate Crime Investigating Committee had turned up a sinister pattern of organized crime...
...Pattern. Many of Big Crime's big men have paid Kefauver the compliment of disappearing. Jake Guzik vanished from the steam room next door to Chicago's Crime Commission, where he conducts his business over an ivory-handled telephone with a towel around his sagging middle. Charlie Fischetti could be found neither at his Miami estate, nor in Manhattan's Stork Club, nor in the duplex penthouse atop 3100 North Sheridan...
...whether they showed up or not, the mob chieftains left telltale signs everywhere. In city after city, the same pattern of far-flung enterprise and secret partnerships showed up. The committee found that Meyer Lansky and Joe Adonis are busily engaged with dice games in New Jersey and roulette in Miami. Philadelphia's Dave Glass and Cleveland's Al Polizzi are partners in Miami Beach's Sands Hotel. New York's Frank Erickson shared the Colonial Inn in Hallandale, Fla. with Detroit's Mert Wertheimer; Cleveland's Tommy McGinty has "maybe...
...commanded Kaneohe Bay Air Station on Oahu. He was eating Sunday-morning breakfast in his quarters when he heard planes approaching. Snapped Martin from the window when he saw them violating the flight pattern: "When I get hold of those so-and-sos, they're going to lose some numbers." His sharp-eyed, twelve-year-old son, who had seen their markings, broke the bad news: "They're not going to lose any numbers, Pop. They're Japs...