Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years had the nation witnessed so far-reaching a surge of strikes. From Milan to Messina, from Bologna to Brindisi, men strutted the streets with banners, sat stubbornly with arms folded in occupied factories or simply stayed home. There was no common denominator to the strikes, no overall pattern of agitation as in the past, but rather a vague feeling among Italian workers that the iron was hot. And strike they...
...tenure appointments as it wishes. The number of new appointments the Faculty of Arts and sciences can make each year in the English Department is controlled, as in other departments, by a formula called the Braustein Plan." The plan was adopted most before World War II to provide a pattern for permanent appointments...
...appointing him head of the overall American cultural program in France, including the U.S. Information Services, the State Department is "breaking a traditional pattern," Wylie said yesterday...
...word for dogma in Chinese translates literally to "eight-legged." This comes from the eight-part essays of feudal times which candidates for office had to write. Each of the eight sections of the essay had to conform to an unflexible pattern, each completely prescribed in both form and style. I was reminded of this etymology every time a paper was due, roughly once a week...
...when Martin Luther King led 2000 Negro demonstrators through the streets of Birmingham, the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson Mississippi noted editorially: "Now it's started in Birmingham, with the same familiar pattern. Cynical young men have once again dressed up like old women and managed to get before the fire hoses and police dogs...