Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clubroom 2½-miles distant. Communist journals avoided lavish praise of Mao, emphasized instead his record as a "collective leader." No actual down grading of Mao was involved, however, nor did this represent any contraction of his real power. The Chinese leaders were merely deferring to the pattern suggested by their Soviet brethren, a pattern explained in person to the Chinese Reds by the most distinguished visitor to their conclave, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan. Mikoyan explained how the Soviet Party had made itself "more united and strong" by overcoming the "cult of the individual." In his 6,700-word...
Here, in brief, is the kind of pattern they found...
...their right or threaten their vital interests with reckless impunity. If Nasser got away with his grab unpenalized, other Arabs in other lands might take it as a precedent for grabs of their own-at British and U.S. oil and pipelines. And if Nasser's truculence became a pattern elsewhere, it could destroy all hopes of fruitful cooperation between the world's free industrial nations and the underdeveloped countries...
...abnormally high also in several other northeastern states and the District of Columbia. West of the Ohio, the only states equally lethal are California, Louisiana and Nevada. Among women, the rates average less than half those of the men, but the geographical variations, on the whole, follow a similar pattern. Men's death rates from heart disease exceed women's at all ages, but by far the greatest variations between the sexes are caused by the soaring rates among men aged 45 to 64. These are the main findings of a study conducted by the U.S. Public Health...
...fact that the "unknowns" are on view at all is pure luck. Last spring brisk, greying Edith Halpert, 55. owner of the Downtown Gallery, went to Europe on a ten-day vacation. In the familiar busman's-holiday pattern, she took time to drop in on Rome's 62-year-old American Academy. After a look at what the young Americans were doing there, she promptly started buying their work. And concluding that they rated a show, she turned her ten-day vacation into a three-week business trip that included Florence and Paris...