Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hitting the Bank. If cash was the desperate goal of the S.A.O.. two big armed robberies in quick succession fitted neatly into the pattern of violence. Six men broke into the offices of the Société Générale Commerciale de 1'Est on Paris' Quai Anatole-France, forced the president to open the safe, and made off with $80,000 in gold and currency. In Beaune, 170 miles southeast of Paris, thieves looted the safe-deposit boxes of a local bank, getting away with an estimated $2,000,000 in cash...
Even such giants as General Electric and RCA have found themselves outmatched. For one thing, IBM has set the pattern of leasing computers rather than selling them. This worked fine for IBM, which had a steady income from its other leased office machines. But newcomers to the computer field were handicapped, since leasing delayed for four or five years their recovering the cost of the computers. Though their computer sales were better than ever, both Burroughs and National Cash Register last year suffered setbacks in earnings because they leased so many more computers than they sold...
...many years, the varsity hockey team should do to the bulldogs in New Haven what the Elis' swimming team has promised to do in Cambridge--beat its biggest rival badly. Harvard has lost just two games to Yale in better than a decade of hockey, and the pattern is not likely to change tonight...
...mass meeting. "By 1837," writes Thomas, "antislavery had reached a crossroad. One road led into the broad highway of American political reform . . . that connected with the continuity and conservative tradition of American life. The other road was a highroad of moral idealism, which cut directly across the conservative pattern of American society to revolution, secession and civil war. This was the road Garrison chose." Thomas, apparently, belongs to the "unnecessary war" school of historians and implies that the conservative "broad highway" would have brought an end to slavery without bloodshed, though the process would have taken a little longer...
...time mysteriously hiding information from each other in innumerable false suspenses, or alternatively describing over and over what has been going on. When these devices begin to wear thin, Babe returns to the stage a crew of tedious mystics who repeat each other's lines after the familiar pattern of the Western--you know: "It's quiet out here tonight." "Yeah, too quiet...