Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...witness under crossexamination. The U.S., said Acheson, should stay the whole way out of Formosa unless it was prepared to go the whole way in. The J.C.S. plan for a small military mission to Formosa was another example, he said, of too little & too late. It was an Asiatic pattern which the State Department was qualified to recognize...
...southern. Only 82 counties-distributed helter-skelter across the country in both zones-reported no polio cases between 1932 and 1946-the period under study. Of the 83 counties which had had epidemics, all but seven were within the northern zone. But within this zone, no clear pattern was apparent...
Author Goudge's aim, through all this, is to show that everything is a "carefully woven pattern where every tightly stretched warp thread of pain [lays] the foundation for a woof thread of joy"-which is a fair example of how the sonorous Victorian style sounds in Miss Goudge's version. However it sounds, Miss Goudge's simple optimism, her invariable happy endings and her soufflé of fairies and folklore always pull her through. Gentian Hill should do it again...