Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...damage wrought by the Belgians' abrupt departure, the job still looked almost hopeless. Said one U.N. doctor: "It is inconceivable that such a breakdown in health services should occur in the 20th century. The Congo is just a few months short of returning to a medieval health pattern...
...upstart teams simply got better. Kansas scared the daylights out of then-undefeated Syracuse before losing, 14-7. Missouri trounced Penn State and the Air Force, soared to fifth in the national standings. Nebraska even beat Army. By last week the unlikely events had settled into a pattern that ranked at the top of 1960's football news: after years of fumbling, the Big Eight was playing big-league football...
Although he would make no predictions on the basis on this pattern, Harts said the cyclical stages "will manifest themselves in one way or another is the next 40 years...
...plate diners had already made it plain in their welcoming ovations that they were enthusiastically pro-Nixon. And on any applause meter, Nixon, who gracefully shelved partisan politics for the evening, came out ahead. But the pattern remained the same. Kennedy looked and talked like a man who knew he was in the 'lead and was willing to take a few irreverent chances...
...West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard was addressing delegates of 24 African states, who had come to Germany to discuss trade and political ties. Erhard warned them against "losing your freedom," orated that "colonialism has been overcome, but worse than colonialism is imperialism of the Communist totalitarian pattern." Up from the front row of invited diplomats jumped Andrei Smirnov, the Russian Ambassador to Bonn. Waving a fistful of papers, he rushed toward Erhard shouting: "You talk about freedom. Germany killed 20 million people in our country...