Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prices (based on an average gin price of 45-77?) from the farm right up to finished goods, and tossed it to Harry Truman for a decision. Said he: "I am going to fight this thing through." DiSalle had good reason for his stubbornness. Raw cotton would set a pattern for meat, metals and almost every other basic commodity. If raw cotton were freed of all controls, as the cotton men wanted, DiSalle knew that he would have little hope of controlling the other basic commodities. Without such control, there was no hope of holding the retail price line...
That Oxford Blank-Blank. Truman's dislike for Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was a long-standing one, dating from Fulbright's suggestion after the Republican victory in 1946 that Harry Truman should appoint a Republican Secretary of State and resign in his favor, following the English parliamentary pattern. In his private conversation, Truman has since referred to Fulbright as "that overeducated, Oxford blank-blank...
...flow of bright ribbons was still not trickling down to the enlisted ranks.* Near Waegwan a few months ago, a corporal named Everett L. Elmore headed his boat across the bullet-torn Naktong River for the enemy-held shore. Mortar shells crashed alongside, machine-gun bullets stitched a pattern against its sides. Corporal Elmore rallied his panic-stricken passengers, delivered them to the beachhead, and went back for more. On his last trip, Corporal Elmore was mortally hit. He got the Bronze Star Medal-posthumously-an award for "heroic achievement" not deemed to be of sufficient degree to merit...
Caricature unfortunately does not work so well in the upper classes as in the lower. All the minor nobility seem to have fixed ideas of just how a Shakespearean actor gesticulates, and pattern their actions accordingly. Thayer David and John Lasell, however, happily have clear conceptions of the characters of Henry IV and Hal. The result is a subtle but clear change in the Prince's character which arises from his relationship with his father...
...identified only as Senor Delgado, took to studying the whims and behavior of roulette wheels in the small casino at nearby Necochea. Recording several thousand consecutive turns of a wheel, he found that eight or nine numbers seemed to turn up more frequently than the others. By playing a pattern of the high-frequency numbers and rechecking his computations, he began to win modestly but consistently...