Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision spread fast and spread hard through the South. Virginia, the traditional leader, had originally provided in its massive-resistance laws-in its authorization for the Governor and/or assembly to seize control of the schools from local districts, to close schools, to withhold school funds, etc.-a promising pattern of lawful resistance to the Supreme Court's basic 1954-55 decisions. Now Virginia was setting what amounted to a new pattern of limited or token integration, which had already been pioneered in North Carolina. Desperately, the Virginia General Assembly's extremists, led by Senator Harry Byrd...
...sudden agony was left to deskbound editorial writers. They fired from the hip. Batista, the deposed tyrant, was condemned. Castro, the idealistic liberator, rated approving choruses, relieved only here and there by a suspicious question. In the next phase, as the tattoo of rebel firing squads stitched a new pattern on the face of Cuba, and the landscape was no longer boldly black and white, U.S. readers were presented with multiple images of Castro, ranging all the way from the Christ-like idealist to the ruthless murderer. The New York Times's Herbert Matthews recalled how Castro had "whispered...
Tonight at Providence the Crimson might find the going even tougher than it did three weeks ago, for the sextet has had trouble there with Brown. Unless it can reverse the pattern of both the last Friar game and the contest with B.C. Monday night, goalie Harry Pratt will face a tough night...
...swirl-dimpled, symbol-specked Weather Bureau maps, the storm gathered in classic pattern: polar air and Gulf of Mexico winds butted along a line that curled like an overturned roller coaster; winds overhead fluxed cold and warm. Translated into ground-level consequences last week, the winter's most severe storm heaved snow, sleet, gales, tornadoes and floods over most of the U.S. west to the Rockies, by week's end was responsible for more than 100 deaths...
...though private monthly circulation of 20,000. Japan's 500,000 practicing poets can win prize money from most of the metropolitan newspapers and from the Emperor himself. They write in all the classic forms, but the simple 17-syllable haiku, usually arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern of three lines, is the runaway favorite. Harold G. Henderson, author of An Introduction to Haiku, estimates that 1,000,000 haiku are printed every year. Trains of Reverie. By Western standards, the haiku is far-out poetry. It does not rhyme. The strange nuances -even the punctuation has significance...