Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from two to one, or because three brewery workers were fired for guzzling more than their traditional two free pints of beer on the job. A Bristol shipyard was struck for three weeks when boilermakers and shipwrights clashed over who should trace a pencil line around a plastic pattern. Almost every skilled craft worker in Britain still demands and gets a "mate" to carry his tools and do his lifting and fetching for him-a medieval hangover from the guild apprentice system. A Vickers' shipyard, for example, has an electrician who earns $56 a week chiefly for replacing about...
...regular directors' meeting of an engineering company outside London. "The office was richly furnished with thick carpets, an Annigoni painting, and extremely expensive antique furniture. Deliberations were sweetened by drafts of gin and tonic drunk out of beakers of cut glass. The discussion followed no conceivably rational pattern; a large part of it was taken up by the sales director's amatory reminiscences of the world capitals he had most recently visited. There were frequent interruptions, by telephone, from the directors' wives, who each had various social and domestic problems." Later, Rees recounted, they all adjourned...
...come to grips with the sporadic Communist terrorism along the country's northeast frontier with Laos. Bangkok has devoted less attention to a similar but smaller wave of trouble far to the south, along the thin isthmus of Thailand that forms part of the Malay Peninsula. There, a pattern of forced "tax" collections, Red propaganda leaflets and occasional clashes with police patrols has suggested the presence of a regular second front of Communist guerrillas...
...only vocal opposition comes from Helen Suzman, the pert, doughty Johannesburg housewife who is the Progressive Party's only member in Parliament. Apartheid is still attacked in the English-language press, which has somehow managed to maintain a tradition of obstinate opposition to the racist pattern, but the attacks are losing their sting. Their readers, impressed by Verwoerd's successful pacification of the country since the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, no longer want to read about the injustices of his methods...
More than anything else, the food-price spiral is part of a broader inflationary pattern that has been stitched by Government policy. Considering the cost of other things, today's food prices are far from exorbitant: the ordinary American family spends 18% of its after-tax income to eat-and that average is the world's lowest...