Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private-enterprise development of petroleum has been vastly successful, but Brazil and Argentina have long since adopted the French-Italian pattern of state oil enterprises. Frankly trying to export the private-enterprise concept, Washington has long refused loans to public companies...
...basis for this speculation lies in the neat figure-eight pattern through which The Prowler traced his activity. Many of the more intellectual officials point to the symbolic significance of the "eight" as conclusive proof that the affair was plotted by a Harvard...
...Adenauer last night said a new East-West summit conference should be held "only after very careful diplomatic preparations have made it clear that there appears to be a possibility of an understanding." The Western position on Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's latest proposals seemed further solidified along the pattern set by President Eisenhower's response Sunday...
...years. Historian J. Frank Dobie, onetime "Professor Pancho" of the University of Texas, has sounded off on everything from the writing of Ph.D. theses ("transferring bones from one graveyard to another") to a onetime U. of T. president ("a flunky of the Laval pattern"). Last week he was off again when a reporter from the Houston Post asked him to say a few words about U.S. education...
...varsity consistently set up driving lay-ups and easy jump and push shots as the Lions came up to play them more closely in their attempt to shut off the outside scoring. At one point, Harrington tallied on three quick lay-ups off of the Crimson offensive pattern, which is designed to set loose a cutter through the use of both a high and a low post. The pattern became all the more successful as the Lions drew in more closely, making themselves easy targets for well-planned blocks...