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...West Germany, he thought the first thing for Germany was "earned equality" on a political basis. Then would be the time to talk about German military units. "I, for one commander, want no unwilling contingents," he said, "no soldier serving in the pattern of the Hessians, in any army of my command...
...almost three years without a wage raise (largely because their bosses couldn't agree on a few technical details). They were angry, too, at being called unpatriotic. In their anger, they were willing to be mean. So, suddenly, they decided to go in for the mass lie. The pattern of the phony epidemics changed from day to day. On some railroads the wildcatters began drifting back after a few days, but when they did, more reported sick elsewhere. At St. Louis strikers had "tonsillitis"; at Detroit they guessed, soberly, that they "must have picked...
...identified only as Senor Delgado, took to studying the whims and behavior of roulette wheels in the small casino at nearby Necochea. Recording several thousand consecutive turns of a wheel, he found that eight or nine numbers seemed to turn up more frequently than the others. By playing a pattern of the high-frequency numbers and rechecking his computations, he began to win modestly but consistently...
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...problem of the committee was not to tabulate individual sentiments, Blackmer said, but rather to see whether the attitude changes of a student toward the College and lie tell into a general pattern. Or, in other words, whether the change that came over the single student typified a large group...