Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safeguards of the family as an institution must be carefully fostered among adolescents: "What [adolescents] do during the difficult premarriage period may well influence their whole lives. If they give in to sexual desire without restraint, it is not to be expected that they will fit into a pattern of stable married life without a struggle . . . What comes cheaply is not valued highly. But even more important, when a man knowingly deviates from the moral law, his ability to resist further temptation is weakened. Habit and the memory of sin are not easily effaced...
...shall prescribe any requirements with respect to the curriculum or administration of any school." In addition the House Committee report emphasizes that the federal aid should be to supplement and not to replace other normal resources. "Each institution," the report states, "should remain free to develop its own educational pattern in accordance with its own concept of its historical destiny, its own philosophy of education and the educational needs of the region within which it operates...
...grows hotter he slumps down, his feet on the table, his bald head slipping until it is about level with the top of the bench back. he voices grow more strident, but Attlee hardly stirs. He might be asleep. But no, his hand is moving through a strange intricate pattern. He is doodling. Some knitted through France's revolution...
...such small ways, said FORTUNE, the American system has demonstrated its adaptability to foreign cultures. "It is therefore a model instrument for the reformation of other economies; for far from imposing an alien pattern on them, it is constantly reforming itself from within. Not only will foreign countries modify the American system to suit themselves; they will also inevitably contribute elements of useful reform to the fundamental proposition . . . The American Business Economy is neither a closed nor a fixed system. By its nature it must remain open and changing or perish...
...group-which takes almost two-thirds of the film-is a self-contained story so absorbingly pictured that some cinemagoers may feel a letdown when there seems nothing left to fight but the Germans. But Director Henry King makes the most of his only combat sequence: a trim, exciting pattern of re-enacted shots intercut with official U.S. and German wartime film...