Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a voter wondered too. Even in the flush of post-election emotion, few could mistake Truman for an inspiring leader in the pattern of Churchill or Roosevelt. Many remembered the bewildered, fumbling Harry Truman groping through the tumbling squalls of the postwar economy, often seeming to dismiss his problems as jauntily as the captain of the Walloping Windowblind. But not even his opponents doubted his essential integrity and simplicity and, in the calmer waters of 1948, that seemed enough. Said a young businessman: "He'll do what he thinks he ought to. Up home in North Carolina...
...prison bars, the caged human figures. Casually it takes in such alarming details as a woman giggling to herself, another sitting on the floor. Later, it surveys the rows of beds in the dormitory at night, when Virginia first realizes where she is, while the soundtrack weaves a chilling pattern of the weeping, moaning and plaintive singing that come from the separate nightmares...
...things got straightened out last night in this case of Fisher vs, the Harvard Young Republican Club. All of them fall into one basic, unpleasant pattern. It is a pattern of guilt on both sides. The Club has been guilty of various underhanded political machinations--the sort of maneuvering that probably goes on in all the big undergraduate political organizations, but that has never before become general knowledge. What is more serious, it has also been guilty of encouraging Fisher, whether officially or unofficially, to do some of the things he has done. Fisher, on his side, has been guilty...
...Planning Committee have conceived of peculiar methods in the past, and Bingham is a member of the Planning Committee, and the test-balloon idea is therefore not extraordinary. But no matter which way it finally comes out, this sub-quarrel will only add one more lie to the pattern of underhandedness, bitterness, and dangerous, and dangerous naivete that has characterized the entire affair, and the characterizes too much of politics as practiced by Harvard undergraduates...
...great, bloody battle around Suchow had produced a familiar pattern. Fast-moving Communist columns had swirled about the city, wiped out upwards of a quarter of its Nationalist garrison in bitter fighting, then bypassed and isolated the remainder. Now the Communists were striking 100 miles farther south, toward the mud-laden Huai River, last organized defense line before Nanking. Suchow might become another Tsinan or Mukden. If the Nationalists followed their former tactics, they would sit there waiting for death...