Word: pattern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...look good on me. I have always sort of elaborated with my dance clothes. I used to live in my dance clothes, my tights and leotards, but I always personalized them. I'd rip them all up and make sure the runs got really big and had a pattern to them. I started wearing bows in my hair because one day when my hair was long, I couldn't find anything to tie it back. So I took an old pair of tights and wound them around my head, and I liked the way that looked...
Hayes bats fifth in the lineup, and one day Coach John Wentzell complained that her last name didn't begin with a B as well, to fit into the pattern...
...competitors are likely to keep dwindling. History shows that many new industries go through an exuberant expansion phase followed by a shakeout. In the early 1920s, there were at least 300 automobile companies in the U.S., but by 1960 the industry had consolidated into four big firms. If that pattern repeats in computers, only the savviest of the industry's current whiz kids will survive...
...agitation can take away the power given to us by the people." But he warned that the turmoil was an indication that opposition forces were reorganizing for confrontation with the government after the drubbing they took in the December elections. Some political analysts have gone further, suggesting that the pattern of violence is disturbingly reminiscent of the beginning of the opposition's 1973 campaign against Indira Gandhi. Demonstrations in Gujarat that year spread to other states and culminated in the imposition of emergency rule by Mrs. Gandhi...
With the loss to Dartmouth (2-9 entering the games. Harvard continued its confusing pattern of defeat--light losses to nationally ranked teams and lopsided defeats by sub-500 opponents...