Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Intrigue Becomes the Pattern." Yet all this is only a drop of progress in a bucket of despair. The fields and villages of Iran are owned by several hundred feudal families who take from two-fifths to four-fifths of what the peasants grow. Under those terms, the peasant is neither able nor eager to improve the land or h's farming methods...
...reason is insecurity. Said a foreign diplomat who knows Iran: "Political fortunes are so fluctuating that officials hedge their bets. Life in or out of office is so uncertain that money seems the only sure thing; hence bribery flourishes. Where nothing and nobody appear trustworthy, intrigue becomes the pattern of action, and orderly government becomes impossible...
...universal military service is accepted as the pattern," Conant told the American Council on Education Friday, "there (should) be written right into the present bill provisions by which selective service will defer all those men who are today enrolled in our colleges, technical schools, and universities...
Then, in dreadul repetition of the pattern, two El Centro, Calif. prospectors were reported missing after starting out on a trip to Mexico. FBI and police posses scoured towns all along the border, immigration and customs officials searched every vehicle, planes and helicopters swept the desert roads. It was one of the most feverish manhunts since the days of John Dillinger...
...Korea, the Eighth Army's Matt Ridgway said to Joe Collins: "There is no shadow of doubt that the Eighth Army can take care of itself." The pattern of last week's fighting (see below) made General Ridgway's assertion look better than it would have looked the week before...