Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most British colonial governors ultimately reach the point where they stand by, erect and proud, as the Union Jack flutters down over some distant possession and the flag of independence is run up. As the new session of Parliament began in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, last week, the pattern of noble withdrawal was broken by Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of the nearly extinct Central African Federation. Required by tradition to read the speech drafted by the local white government, Lord Dalhousie, resplendent in a plumed cocked hat and silver epaulets, delivered a sharp rebuke to Britain because it "has betrayed...
Modest Proposal. Verolme has bought or built three shipyards in Holland and, expanding abroad in a pattern rare in the shipbuilding industry, three others in Ireland, Norway and Brazil. This week he arrives in Mexico to make final arrangements to build and operate a $60 million yard at Mazatlán that will construct tankers for Pemex, Mexico's national oil company. Verolme has also moved into manufacturing engines, textiles, electrical equipment, boilers and tanks. He now employs 10,000 people and has annual sales of between $90 and $130 million...
...author's premise that the disappearance of world war leaves only revolution. Neither the "bush wars" which Kennedy Administration is presently fighting nor the small-scale wars of nationalistic expansion like Sukarno's venture can be included in either of Miss Arendt's categories. As for the new pattern of military coup d'etats in Latin America, the appearance in Egypt of tactical nuclear weapons, the modern armies of the newly independent states--all factors which seem to signal the end of the epoch of popular revolutions--Miss Arendt ignores their existence entirely...
...would be equally foolish to say that the decision of the Lowell Committee was in every way a logical one. Its evaluation of the evidence of Proctor, and of the charges against Ripley, the foreman, and in several other cases show a constantly repeating pattern: an intuitive decision that the prosecution was correct and the defense in error...
...force. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz took little satisfaction from the new statistics. "My feeling," he said, "is about what it would be if somebody's temperature dropped back from 104° to 103°.'' U.S. labor leaders are in fervent agreement with Wirtz, and their current pattern of contract negotiating is calculated to create jobs by spreading out the available work...