Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance at combat, got command of the Wasp, a small (14,700 tons) carrier that was already outdated by the new Essex-class flattops then abuilding. Under him the Wasp was a taut, efficient and happy ship. The flight plan he worked out for his air group became the pattern through the War for all U.S. carriers...
Kirkland's is the only House library not built on the large reading room pattern. Its three floors, eight fireplaces, and two staircases preserve the atmosphere of an old New England home. When a Deacon wants a book in English Literature, he goes to Mrs. Hicks' bedroom. Government is in John Hicks' bedroom. Government is in John Hicks' living room, downstairs on the left...
Though the controversial federal FEPC bill had been buried in congressional committee for five years, the fumes of its persistent and bomblike smoldering had never left the nostrils of U.S. politicians. Eight states-had adopted anti-discrimination laws written to its pattern; both major parties in their 1948 platforms had avowed their devotion to legislation against discrimination because of race or religion. Last week, under the special rules of "Calendar Wednesday," it became obvious that the FEPC bill was going to be trucked in, like an ashcan of nitroglycerin, for consideration on the floor of the House.¶ The halls...
Behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, the Red hunt bore down implacably on party heretics, class enemies and "agents of Western imperialism." Most spectacular was the Vogeler trial in Hungary (see above). The pattern elsewhere...
That single all-night show set a pattern that radio is still following. From New York, a lonely girl in the Ritz-Carlton kept phoning him maudlin professions of love. Walter Wirichell was on the phone at 5 a.m., and carried a rave for Godfrey in his column. Just before sunup, Godfrey wished aloud that he had some coffee. About 8,000 Washingtonians got into their cars and drove out with sandwiches and full Thermos bottles...