Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report based on independent investigations by the U.C. Police Department and the U.C. Office of Student Affairs supported the Chicanos' claims that fraternity members "engaged in excessive physical violence" during the incident. The report said a preliminary investigation "revealed a pattern of unacceptable conduct over the past several years...
Hitchcock was a cockney, born in London in 1899, and he had a Victorian fascination with sin and with the delicious precariousness of female virtue. His best films placed a succession of cool, blond actresses in jeopardy, and his pattern of filming became a matter of smothering the goddess of the moment with an incestuous sort of fatherly attention, and of laboring to control every detail of her life. He raged when he was deserted, as he saw it, by Ingrid Bergman after Spellbound and Notorious and by Grace Kelly after Dial "M" for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch...
...program is so flexible that less than five percent of all students share the same class-vacation 'pattern', "said Graham...
Today, as one strolls along the gray slate walk ways which randomly pattern the lush green grass. Princeton seems as steeped in custom and tradition as its reputation testifies. There are lew lively protests and no noticeable banners bearing the slogans of activist groups. The campus remains stable and calm. However, the residential college system, a new drinking law, and lingering barriers apparent to minorities have yet to make their full impact on the Princeton campus. In four years the scene might be entirely different
Prospective Harvard novelists could profit from their forebears' achievement by taking close note of one love scene that breaks the pattern. It is a scene in which a Harvard man and a Radcliffe woman enjoy each other's company far from any library, with no preliminary required reading, and without a play-by-play narration of every general-education epiphany. Moreover, as it happens, it is far and away the most celebrated and financially successful love scene in the history of Harvard fiction...