Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that, as the South's leader, it has chosen to lead the way backward into a dark yesterday. Its acts to date have been carefully legalistic (with such grim exceptions as Mrs. Roger Boyle's charred cross). But its less sophisticated sister states, following the bare pattern of their leader, have distorted Virginia's program into outright defiance of the Supreme Court. At his homeland's present crossroads, Harry Byrd is waving the South in a wrong direction that will be remembered long after he has departed...
...familiar principle causes the rod to act as a "light pipe." Dr. Kapany conceived the idea of bunching thousands of microscopic glass rods, each of which would transmit a single point of light. The bundle of points of light should form an image in much the same way the pattern of ink dots in a newspaper illustration forms a picture...
Across Europe the pattern was the same...
...promise we have for sustained peace in our time: peace with any approximation of justice . . . Worthy of highest praise are [the U.S. Government's] efforts, rising above considerations of party and politics, to bring the problems before the tribunal of the nations . . . Our President, indeed, has set a pattern of vigorous leadership, and has emphasized many of the points which have been dwelt upon by Pope Pius...
...political geography course was based on "The changing map pattern of the contemporary political world...