Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a quarter of a century, dating back to the Truman Doctrine in 1947, Turkey has marched step by step with the U.S. on defense. The pattern of close bilateral relations between the two countries was later expanded under the NATO and CENTO treaties, and by 1975 U.S. military and economic aid to Turkey had reached a total of more than $6.5 billion. Last week the U.S. military-aid pipeline was abruptly cut off in accordance with a congressional order that all arms assistance be suspended until substantial progress is made in reaching a settlement on Cyprus. The cutoff...
...mural Independence and the Opening of the West (1961) in the Truman Library, told us, "When I came out of the Navy, after the first World War, I made up my mind that I wasn't going to be just a studio painter, a pattern maker in the fashion then dominating the art world-as it still does. I began to think of returning to the painting of subjects-subjects with meaning-which people in general might be interested in. One of the ways [the artist] could do that is pay more attention to public meanings-meanings that people...
Griffin said the action was another example of "a pattern of bureaucratic callousness" in "the local church structure...
...endured by being able to wield great power without giving the appearance of actively seeking it. Moreover, his talents have always meshed well with those of the willful, romantic Mao, who has directed his genius at broad theoretical problems rather than the administrative details at which Chou excels. The pattern was first established during the Long March in 1934 when Chou, who theoretically outranked Mao in the party hierarchy, deferred to the future Great Helmsman in a dispute over military strategy...
...problem for artists who did not want to follow the usual pattern of expatriation was how to be both modern and at the same time American. Most modern American art from the teens and '20s had a homemade, do-it-yourself, rule-of-thumb look. Arthur Dove's was no exception, and some of his paintings, particularly in the mid-'30s, poignantly suggest an imagination hobbled by its lack of prototypes. But a certain naiveté and brusqueness were, in any case, bound up with Dove's sense of aesthetic probity. It was part of what...