Word: patterning
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...pattern repeated itself in later years. The ways of passive action-the sari-clad women lying on railway tracks, the distilling of illicit salt from the sea, the boycotting of British shops, the strikes, the banner-waving processions-would lead to shots in the streets, to burning and looting. Gandhi always punished himself for his followers' transgressions by imposing a fast on himself...
...accounts of World War II are seared with so much brutality and suffering, or depict more starkly the sullen impact of war on the common soldier. Writes Matthews: "Perhaps somewhere on somebody's map the actions of our company made a pretty pattern against the whole picture, but what the readers of those maps probably didn't know was that it was a pretty pattern of desperate little confusions." On Iwo, the "desperate little confusions" prodded many a marine into heroism, many more into death. Author Matthews sums up: "It was easier to go forward than...
...shocking news. Western Europe is running a deficit of $5 billion a year in fuel, grain, oils and basic commodities. In a matter of months a crisis will come. Unless the U.S. goes to the rescue, Western Europe's civilization will collapse and revert to the country-village pattern of medieval times. The receiver in such a bankruptcy would be Communist Russia...
...spotted the $1 price on a dress pattern which came into the office...
...should an envelope and a piece of tissue paper cost a dollar" he asked. "They shouldn't cost more than 10?." So he decided to make them for 15?. He rented a small loft, and went to work with his son cutting out patterns. They cribbed their designs from department-store windows, movies, and dress companies, priced their patterns at 15? (and later 25?), while most others sold between 50? and $2. They eschewed high-fashion designs, kept their patterns easy to make. Most important, they printed cutting lines and instructions (in English and Spanish) on each piece...