Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFTER the first World War a sense - of shock made many statesmen and people begin to think in terms outside the old pattern of national states, and to make a move along the path to a world unity. But the first League of Nations was a bold and noble effort to produce, in Pascal's words, "a world in which force is just and justice has force at its disposal." After the second World War a new attempt was made. In the first flush of enthusiasm the founders of the United Nations organization believed that they had found...
...sake of having children, but could
not bear the thought of heterosexual intercourse.
...wildly savage land. It is bigger (586,400 sq. mi.) than two of Texas plus one Indiana, and 99% of the land-much of it faceless tundra-is owned by the Federal Government. Nearly one-fourth of the 213,000 population is in military uniform manning a polka-dot pattern of defense posts, and the rest of its inhabitants depend chiefly on two sources of income: fishing and timber...
...years since then, John McMahon has seen the social workers of the Volunteers change from a band of eager amateurs to an organization of highly trained, specialized men and women, working more and more closely with Government agencies. He approves of this pattern. Says he: "I can see the private agencies in the role of developing pilot programs and experimentation. Then, if the experiments prove successful, the Government would pick them up as it has done in the rehabilitation of the handicapped...
Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team followed the idyllic spring pattern as it went undefeated to win the Eastern Intercollegiate League. The match of the year was the Crimson's outstanding 6-3 defeat of Yale which saw varsity Captain Dale Junta climax his Harvard career by defeating Yale's Donald Dell, one of the country's best young players in three sets. Between tennis and squash, Barnaby's teams amassed a 27 and 1 record for him this year. Again the record speaks for itself...