Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcements that he often enjoyed female companionship along the way and has no intention of resuming his marriage or living in Waseca again. "I'm a social deviate, a radical, even a little crazy," he said recently. "I don't fit into anybody's pattern and I never will...
With 100 little winks, grimaces and ha-has, Slocum describes (and mercilessly redescribes) himself and his life in a flat pattern of total recall. He is a reasonably handsome man in his 40s -wavy hair that is thinning, a paunch that is growing. In the office he is "cordial and considerate to just about everybody." He has "this wretched habit" of acquiring the characteristics of the last person he has been talking to-a stutter, a tic, even a limp...
...race began slowly because no one was willing to push the pace. A pattern soon began to develop, however, as Harvard bunched most of its runners at the front of the pack...
...South of 15 years ago and the Boston of today is that in each case, when people with power decided it was time to integrate things, people without much power had to do most of the integrating. Much of the passion of the resistance to integration derived from this pattern. The pattern included the Northern liberals, some of them oblivious to the racism in their home towns, who went South to impose a new sensibility on white people in America's least developed section. And it includes suburban liberals willing to fight for integration to the last South Bostoner. Partly...
...pattern was all too familiar. Three men, armed with pistols and a grenade, strode into the French embassy in The Hague just before closing time and occupied the fourth floor of the modern concrete and glass building. Seizing eleven hostages, including French Ambassador Count Jacques Senard and several business executives, they issued a nonnegotiable demand: a comrade held in a French prison must be released or the hostages would be killed one by one, beginning at 3 next morning. The demand was scrawled in red ink on a piece of paper and tossed out a window. It was from...