Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Altered Pattern...
Innumerable bits of confusion can be added to this emerging pattern: the advanced standing student, who, having received recognition of his ability, becomes more sensitive to failure, but, because he has moved into a higher level of competition, can also excuse failure more adequately. Similar in some ways is the erstwhile student leader who may come to College without expecting his accustomed success, but is still peculiarly sensitive to success and failure in this field...
...naturally looking at them for the key to the outlook for the economy. Last week Chief Statistician Louis Paradiso of the Commerce Department warned economists not to let their eyes deceive them. The inventory situation this year, he said, is "very different" from previous years of downturn, and "the pattern should not be read as in the past." In the three previous recessions, businessmen cut back their rate of inventory accumulation for several months, and once they began living off inventories-causing a net decline-the drop continued for 10 to 13 months. Since inventories this year did not slide...
...from their soldier nephew, Cliff, whom they had raised since he was orphaned as a child. But Cliff is as emotionally tongue-tied as his aunt and uncle: his prosaic letters might as well be coming from nearby Cincinnati instead of distant, mysterious, embattled Korea. Then the comfortable, cozy pattern of the days is shattered by a War Department telegram reporting Cliff missing in action. Alma passionately insists Cliff is alive and will return; she decides to write an account of his life. "It would be a kind of family thing." she tells her brother. "A kind of record just...
...started, flopped about for a time, then took off on a sustained rise even though the economy continued to decline for some months. By the time the recessions were nearing their ends, the market had already pushed well upward. Streeters feel that the market is likely to ignore the pattern of the past only if later facts clearly show that a major recession...