Word: patternings
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...pattern emerged. When the cold war turned hot and Americans who had been sent abroad to fight communism came home in coffins, challengers assailed the President from the left, accusing him of bellicosity and offering themselves as champions of the soft option. At other times, when Americans were not directly involved in a shooting war but were worried about the Red menace, the most potent political attacks on the man in the White House usually came from the right; he was faulted for being too accommodating or insufficiently vigilant or both...
...This pattern cut across the traditional lines of party and even ideology. On several occasions, Republicans carped at Democrats from the left and portrayed themselves as peacemakers. In October 1952, just before that year's election, Dwight Eisenhower vowed, with great fanfare, "I shall go to Korea." It was a gesture of political theater, not statesmanship...
...distracted by the sight of a bunch of people perched on conference room chairs trying to be serene. We were told to focus on an object in the room, to put all our attention on that thing and not waver. But my object of attention, a fragment of the pattern in the carpet, just did not fixate my soul. I envied Larry, who, sitting in a lotus position on top of his chair, looked like the Dalai Lama in a dark blue suit. Maybe I just didn't have what it takes...
...course there were exceptions to the general pattern: the poor Canadian who came on a scholarship, and the occasional Jew. But the Saltonstalls and Greenoughs and their brethren predominated...
...price could be a huge increase in power for Le Pen's National Front. It has only one parliamentary seat now, but if last week's voting pattern were repeated under full proportional representation, it would rocket up to 77 seats (out of 577). A onetime student thug in the Latin Quarter who lost an eye in a street brawl, and an ex-paratrooper who interrogated prisoners in Algiers (he denies having tortured them), Le Pen tries these days to project a more moderate personal image. He dresses in dark suits and subdued neckties rather than the army khakis...