Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cleveland events followed the now-familiar Willkie pattern: terrific buildup, hysterical ovation, a solid, sound, sensible but not stirring speech. Crowds were huge, friendly, happy, excited. To the Public Auditorium they came, to sit with the stage partitions opened up, so that two enormous audiences faced each other across a great divide...
...first news of Indo-China, there was no preparation for this jump. Since World War II began, U. S. citizens have grown accustomed to a well-grooved pattern of U. S. diplomatic action-condemnations of aggression accompanied, now & then, with reports of new loans to China; the impounding of the assets of conquered nations, together with increasing restrictions on exports to Japan; the strengthening of ties with Latin America, together with reports of increased aid to Great Britain. Such has been the characteristic pattern of U. S. foreign policy: defensive, gloomy, hesitant, and principally concerned with establishing the moral superiority...
...Pattern. No matter what its mission beyond London, each plane flew up a lane roughly parallel to the Thames Estuary, roared over London to keep citizens awake or in cellars, branched out on its job, then flew back by the same route. Because many planes which had not found or had been driven away from their objectives jettisoned their bombs at random in this lane, and because there were plenty of targets there anyhow, it was dubbed Hell's Corridor...
Luftwaffe's pattern for bombing Great Britain began to become apparent with last week's intensive night-raiding. Around London, the prime emphases were on the city's seaward jugular, the Thames Estuary and London dock area, and on the city's western and southwestern edges...
While London's lot created the biggest headlines, the Luftwaffe by night expanded and intensified its bombing pattern all over Great Britain. Liverpool and Birkenhead, the great shipping and shipbuilding centres of the west, received their first heavy bombings last week. So did Manchester, the Midlands textile centre. So did Derby, where Rolls-Royce engines are made for Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighters. Other motor and aircraft factories at Birmingham and Coventry, attacked before, were attacked again & again. While the Germans hammered these targets, they continued pounding at seaports: Cardiff, Bristol, Portsmouth, Harwich, Dungeness, Hull. Only British...