Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADVERTISERS in the U.S., in recent years, have filled newspapers, magazines and television screens with talking dogs and tattooed men, philosophical musings and the Piel Brothers. Though some of this procession represents the extremes of the huckster's art, the pattern reflects a basic shift in the philosophy of salesmanship that has influenced advertising from Madison Avenue to Madison, Calif, (pop. 400). The new pitch: sophisticated selling...
After tiptoeing upward for five months, living costs marched boldly higher across a broad front last week. In a pattern that had all the markings of the fifth general price adjustment since World War II (and the first since 1953), appliance makers announced increases of1% to 10% on TV sets, refrigerators, washing machines and electric ranges. Other manufacturers hiked their price tags on a wide variety of products, from mattresses to steel cabinets, rubber heels to beer. Scrap steel prices reached $63 a ton, a record high. Automakers estimated that 1957 cars will be from $30 to $300 more expensive...
...same general pattern applies in the cattle market. Since mid-July beef cattle and calves, which constitute the largest single source of U.S. cash farm income, have been bringing farmers higher prices. All grades and weights slaughtered in Chicago last week brought a top price of $26.27 compared to $22.50 in the same week a year ago. The prices are up because lower production and premature marketing have resulted in a short supply of beef. Stockyard experts predict that the price trend will continue upward into November...
...felt no hostility towards him. On the contrary, we made agreements with him . . . Instead of meeting us with friendship, Colonel Nasser has conducted a vicious propaganda campaign against our country . . . And now he has torn up all his country's promises toward the Suez Canal Company . . . The pattern is familiar to many of us, my friends. We all know it is how fascist governments behave, and we all remember only too well what the cost can be in giving in to fascism. We do not seek a solution by force . . . But this I must make plain: we cannot agree...
...lives are far from a song. But when they rise from the earthen floors of the dark, dank-smelling huts, they see the morning sun dancing on the sea, and stately clouds crossing the horizon "like ancient gods." Teen-age Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish plentiful, and ... in time let me become a fisherman among fishermen...