Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to a White House memo saying that "Ohio is crucial to our hopes in November," Gray flew to Cleveland. There he talked about much more than crime, boasting: "We are on the threshold of the greatest growth pattern in our history?growth in the quality of life for all our citizens?growth in our total effort to eradicate the imperfections in human society." He was on another campaign trip when an incredible Teletype message went out over his name from Washington to 21 FBI field offices. It ordered agents to speedily gather information on topical matters of criminal justice...
...RAINBIRD PATTERN by VICTOR CANNING 244 pages. Morrow...
Somewhere in the minds of the officials who pick the Eastern and National ski teams in the United States is unshakably lodged a primal myth whose pattern must be adhered to or unspeakable demons and djinns might be loosed upon the ski world...
...essence this mythic pattern is a slightly milder version of competitive swimming's Wild in the Streets timetable: Win big early and keep on winning or you will find yourself consigned permanently to ski racer's limbo at a very early age. As a rule of thumb, the mileposts are these: undefeated in Torger Tokle and Junior racing circuits to the age of 16, win Something Big by 18, and only a World Cup win or Olympic medal will save you past the age of 21. Over 21 sir? Hand over your race bib and step right into Charon...
...haughtily remote. Faculty members share a common commitment to orderly process and an abhorrence of anything that interrupts their teaching and scholarship. A handful of liberal-to-left junior Faculty will call off class, but most will not. Some conservative Faculty members, if they follow last year's pattern, may even re-schedule hour exams to penalize students observing the strike. The Union will not get any help from this quarter...