Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from women is the anger of slow recognition of the truth of what the authors are saying: that rape is not just a violent attack to be feared from hostile strangers on the street, and to be guarded against by mace and midnight escorts. It is consistent with a pattern of behavior, beginning with the hundreds of "little rapes" that women face every day, and ending, in its most hideous form, with the actual physical violation...
...deaths followed no particular pattern. Some appeared to be gang-related, some were committed in the course of robberies, some involved narcotics. All but a handful of the victims were blacks. One 17-year-old youth died after an argument over a piece of chicken, another over $10 in a dice game. A third teenager, who hoped some day to become a lawyer, was cut down a block from his home, the apparent victim of a young acquaintance with whom he had quarreled the day before. An 18-year-old was fatally shot by his sister after he threatened...
...embrace the change being ushered in by a new generation "with their fine young minds"; in his final month, to an audience intent on applauding his accomplishments in civil rights, he forced attention instead on the next step in the quest for justice as he perceived it-a deliberate pattern of favored consideration for minorities to enable them to stand "on equal ground" with advantaged whites. Eleven days before his death, to a group of us with him at his ranch, his thoughts triggered by a funeral he had just attended, he said, "When I die, I want...
Bawdy Doggerel. Pattern's private war-years papers reveal a much more complicated character than his comicbook legend suggested. He was an American original-a brilliant actor who played the aristocratic warrior or the cussing, jingo-spouting brute, depending on his audience. He once admitted to his aide that he practiced ferocious expressions in the mirror, but he despaired of ever having what he called "a real fighting face." He believed in the natural superiority of Americans in general and himself in particular; the ugly side of that self-confidence was a streak of contemptuous racism, reactionary smugness...
...What defense needs is a consistently working pattern of marking men and getting balls to the forwards," she said...