Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even at the worst of the recession, there was no overall pattern of woe. New England, with its troubled textile industry and heavy manufacturing, was sorely tried. Many of the Midwest's one-industry towns had some rough months. In Peoria, Ill., where Caterpillar Tractor is not just a barometer of business but the whole weather bureau, 9,000 men were out of work until Cat worked off its big inventory of bulldozers and earth movers. But at the same time, South Dakota's farmers were so thick in clover that tax receipts ran 10% higher...
...absence of facts, rumors had a heyday in the bazaars: 375 had been arrested, the security chief had been replaced by a proCommunist. Gradually, one pattern became clearer. Most of those arrested were right-wing nationalists, Al Baath socialists, and other supporters of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...Miyoshi took to walking around the house with a bucket on her head to spare her parents the pain of her songs. After she went to bed, she would duck under her covers and go on singing. When her father refused to buy her a piano, she pasted a pattern of paper keys on the dining-room table and practiced anyway...
...idea of being there first, setting the tradition." "I want to leave something of myself behind, I want to make an impact on the system." "It's a challenge." "I want to do something that will last." "I liked my House, but you had to fit into the pattern. Everything was too organized. I like the notion of making a pattern of your...
...those days, according to Lattimore, the urge to conform was a motivated one, ascribing to itself certain goals. Today, he sees the conformist pattern of society as of a different nature. "The generation of the past four years has been more apathetic, lethargic, and non-causy." This leads people, as he says, "to become interested in hi-fis, instead of politics...