Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first action for the new force. Created since November's rioting, it was divided into eight super-precincts, which covered all France, and equipped with rapid transport and radio jeeps. It had special military powers and was especially designed to provide a fast, hard-hitting counter to any pattern of scattered, simultaneous outbreaks that the Communists, or anyone else, might devise. At Bergougnan the Compagnie de Sécurité received a baptism of sulphuric acid, but it won a swift, decisive victory...
Last week, ex-Interior Secretary Harold Ickes followed this pattern as he began describing "My Twelve Years with F.D.R." in the Saturday Evening Post. He took a wallop at Harry Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that...
...Kinsey got off on the wrong foot, said Dr. Kubie, by making two wrong basic assumptions. "One is that the overt manifestations of sexual patterns are all that we need to know about human sexuality. The other ... is that where any behavior pattern is widespread ... it is superfluous to attempt to explain it ... The implication that because homosexuality is prevalent we must accept it as 'normal,' or as a happy and a healthy way of life, is wholly unwarranted...
...Lift for Murray. The pattern was promptly adopted by others. Two days later the United Electrical Workers' Jim Matles agreed to a similar contract for U.E.'s 40,000 G.M. workers. That fact seemed sure to have an effect on U.E.'s negotiations at Westinghouse and General Electric. Next day, the lyday Chrysler strike was over. Michigan's dapper Governor Kim Sigler dashed from Lansing to his Detroit office, where Chrysler and the U.A.W. had resumed peace talks. A few hours later, Chrysler and the union agreed on a flat 13^ increase. Ford, which had proposed...
There was very little pattern to its triumphs ; it was not a season when revivals, or musicals, or dramas, or comedies held the limelight or hogged the show. In fact, the great triumphs-the things that few who witnessed them would ever forget-were highly special ones, like Judith Anderson's overwhelming performance in Medea or Jerome Robbins' superb Mack Sennett ballet in High Button Shoes...