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...industrial area of the central Ukraine was now lost to the Russians, and the invader pressed on for the vital Donets basin, where most of Russia's coal and much of its remaining industry lie. This push seemed to be developing in the familiar pattern: two prongs reaching out to encircle and squeeze. One hit for Kharkov, the Ukraine's second city. The other struck southeast along the coast to the Sea of Azov...
...deliberate Nazi attempt to sink a U.S. warship, or "even more outrageous," an attack from undersea on an unidentified surface boat, indicating a policy of indiscriminate, unrestricted submarine warfare. Said the President: "This was piracy." But this attack and the other attacks were, he continued, part of a pattern, a Nazi design to abolish freedom of the seas in order to control and dominate the world. He mentioned other Nazi plots*; Of Panama registry though all four were U.S.-owned. in Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia -aimed at the same goal...
...heirs of Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and a great host of heroes-had genuinely good reason to fear that Freedom might perish from their land. For last week Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Gerald Prentice Nye cast aside all but the last veil of pretense and, in the pattern established by Adolf Hitler years ago, sought to make the Jews a public national issue...
...long war in Asia has upset the traditional pattern of rice distribution. Lack of manpower and successive crop shortages have, since 1939, made Japan a major importer. Last year's emergency need for almost 2,000,000 tons of imported rice (a record figure, one-seventh of Japan's total consumption) was part of the urge that made her seize Indo-China. That need led to such abnormally large Japanese overseas purchases that Thailand placed export restrictions on rice, Burmese politicians urged similar action on their Government...
...some intrusion, even of some innovation. They got uneasy when something unusual happened at one of their parties-as, for example, when Park's pretty wife Lynne, doing a dance with a pair of pots for a bra, lost her pots. That was a bit off the pattern. But it was all right for Peter Bailey to strew the living room with toilet paper. That was a tradition. It was also part of the pattern for Peter to find Park kissing Peter's wife. Peter remarked cheerily, "Some fun, eh, boss?" and strolled back to the dance...