Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Government made common cause with the civil rights movement, "an idea whose time has come." Only months ago, integration seemed an irreversible process. Now it seems that the idea's time is waning; that, as happened 93 years ago, a racial Reconstruction may be collapsing. The pattern coalesced last week with extraordinary swiftness: > The White House ordered the firing of Leon Panetta, the liberal lawyer who heads the civil rights division of the Department of Health, Education and Weifare. Panetta, 31, was forced out because of his allegedly excessive zeal in coercing Southern school districts to integrate under...
...first eight minutes of last night's varsity game. Harvard and Brown traded missed lay-ups, but the Bruins established a pattern of rebounding dominance that eventually secured a Brown victory...
...never ask yourself why you go back. I guess it's because you like some of the guys on the team. and you like the coach. It's a pattern that is built up early in life and it's difficult to break. But most important, you get a good feeling when you win, and you want to repeat it." Abbott said...
...wrestling pattern started early in life. He took up wrestling in eight grade, winning more matches on sheer power than on anything else. After two years of wrestling, he broke into the varsity line-up his sophomore year. "But man. I was scared when I wrestled. I was the only sophomore on the "team," Jim said...
Janet Mendelsohn's part of the exhibit concentrates on a description of Tina Donnelly, who lives in a different working section of Birmingham. Tina cranes money by soliciting. Several of her friends are also "on the game." They are part of a prevailing pattern in the neighborhood in which a white girl will live with and support her "colored" pimp. In England, "colored" refers to immigrants from the Commonwealth countries notably Pakistan, India, the West Indies and Jamaica...