Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a fortnight's testimony on operations of the Teamsters Union in Tennessee, Arkansas' seasoned John McClellan was fed up. Snapped the chill-eyed chairman of the Senate Labor Rackets Investigating Committee:* "I do not think even the committee was prepared for the shocking pattern of viciousness, lawlessness and disregard for the laws of the land to which many witnesses have testified here." Sample testimony: Nashville Teamsters negotiated contracts with pile-driving fists; Knoxville Teamsters dynamited truckers who refused to bargain without NLRB elections; Chattanooga Teamsters bombed, burned and escaped the consequences by passing $20.000 in bribes that...
...contarst, the Mevlevi dervishes were no holy-rolling orgiasts. With serenity and calm, dressed in tall, conical hats and flowing black robes, they spun round and round, some fast, some slow, rapt in concentration, some of them murmuring "Allah, Allah" over and over again, whirling themselves into ecstasy. The pattern of their dance was said to represent outwardly the movements of the planets and inwardly the movement of the soul...
Mussolini, the latest example of a notably successful TV specialty, is in great part a monument to a new kind of sleuth: the film searcher. Before Twentieth Century could fit together the show's dramatic jigsaw pattern in celluloid, searchers had to hunt out the bits and pieces of aging film in 25 different hoards in four countries; to give editors a choice, they brought in ten times as much footage as editors could...
Three of the Crimson's goals came on a slap shot by Owen, a scuffle in front of the cage, and a solo by Higgenbottom. The only goal that came as a result of an organized pass pattern was a typical Cleary-Lyle Guttu score...
...young man, Buck realized that he did not belong at Glenwood, and asked for parole. His requests were ignored. Free to go into town when he wanted, Buck could have simply gone over the hill. But the institutional pattern had been stamped too deep in him. Five years ago some rough-and-ready tests of inmates showed that Buck was far above the "moderate imbecile" level at which he had been graded on admission. But he was also judged too old to make a change...