Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women in this book were rebels in some way. Few rebelled in a political sense-Anuta Sharrow belonged to a revolutionary study group in Kiev, but her first love was music. Nor was their rebellion directed specifically against their parents; interestingly enough, in the one case where this pattern does fit, a daughter rebelled against her mother, a university lecturer, by adopting a traditional feminine role. They were rather rebels in alliance with their parents, mounting what protest they could against a culture that had a stranglehold on the Jewish population in general-and a double one on Jewish Women...
...democracy, seems to have gone out of style in recent years of angry all-or-nothing politics. Especially when the Congress is Democratic and the President is Republican, the result is often no legislation, and many issues are left to fade or fester. In an encouraging departure from that pattern, the Ford Administration and a mixed bag of Senators have reached agreement on one of the most sensitive issues of all: wiretapping U.S. citizens for national security purposes...
Woven through the allegations is a too-familiar pattern of the Washington buddy system that Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter have condemned all along the campaign trail. The official to whom Callaway took his plea for a reversal of the Forest Service ruling was J. Phil Campbell, a close friend and fellow Georgian; indeed Callaway had recommended him as Under Secretary of Agriculture. Campbell admits that he urged reconsideration of the Crested Butte expansion. The reversal followed. By strange coincidence, the key decision maker in the Forest Service's reversal of its earlier decision was Jimmy Wilkins...
Ready. Go. The two men erupted simultaneously, sprinted to a gruelling cadence, then settled into a pattern of long simulated oarstrokes that has induced many people to call...
Speaking at North House, Huntington said there was a worldwide pattern towards a general extension of democracy, which had resulted in non-democratic ends. He cited the experience of Chile, where, Huntington said, "an over-extension of democracy led to a coup d'etat which has restored political stability...