Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen and business organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (TIME, May 13). It mistrusts most of the New Deal social legislation and the Eisenhower extensions and additions to it; e.g., it opposes the whole theory of federally supported school construction and health reinsurance as part of the pattern of "creeping socialism." Its old inner rumblings of isolationism make foreign aid especially suspect. The Old Guard is the party of Taft (William H. in 1912 and Robert A. in 1952). It is at its strongest in the organization-minded U.S. Senate, where Old Guardsmen pretty much run things...
...than once that it was time to straighten out his affairs. At length he fired off a "Dear Dave" letter: "There has been talk of your receiving a kickback [from a building loan in Honolulu with Teamster funds], the plain implication being that this was in accordance with a pattern. I am sure that your fiduciary duty has never been sufficiently impressed upon your mind. Accept my resignation...
...nation that introduced the 50-50 split for oil profits, now the pattern in most parts of the world, is pioneering another oil-derived benefit certain to catch the envious attention of petroleum-rich countries in the Middle East and elsewhere. Using oil income and hitherto wasted natural gas, Venezuela is building itself a $300 million basic industry in petrochemicals...
...editorial is misleading on the exact position of the Church as a moral guide. The Church is first criticized for being arbitrary in moral standards, then is chided for passively conforming to a behavior pattern not any different from what a "general moral concensus of the U.S." would imply. Undeniably the Church's position today is ambiguous. Both she and the society are changing. But they are not bipolar forces which are basically incompatible. A definition of Catholicism does not exclude nor restrict membership in a democratic society. (In fact, in the view of Jacques Maritain, Catholicism implies democracy.) Neither...
...Crawford piece, was in two movements, a scheme more composers might well experiment with. England unified each movement through consistent application of one device: the first movement, rather rhapsodic in character, exploited the ornament known as the inverted double mordent; the second, clearly structured, utilized a repeated-note pattern...