Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...pattern of thought of which the U.S. was going to hear more. Essentially, in the world's great crisis, the U.S. was faced with two alternatives: 1) keeping and cherishing the allies with whom it had stood before, or 2) going into the type of hemisphere isolation advocated by Joe Kennedy and many others still to be heard from. Alternative One called for all the powers that diplomacy, hard work and decision could muster. It had to be pursued as a task in operations, just as rearmament is a task in operations, and it had to be carried...
...similar mishap hit Mikkola's top sprinter, Dick Weiskopf, who pulled a leg muscle in the first heat of the 50-yard dash. To complete the "misfortunes-come-in-threes" pattern, half-miler Bill Montague twisted his ankle working out and was unable to compete...
Take, for instance, Frederick English's story called "Tied With Trembling." It contains a vast number of sensory images and descriptions, some of them good, and most of them undistinguished. Evidently these are meant to produce a mosaic pattern on the reader's mind, a blurred after-image. My mosaic turns out to be about a girl who goes through one or more traumatic experiences, grows up, and returns to her childhood home in the country. The story, however, is too fragmentary for more than a superficial understanding, and that, it would seem to me, is a distinct drawback...
...puss?" In Vancouver, the News-Herald took a straw poll, reported two-to-one sentiment against dropping the bomb now. In Quebec, newspapers condemned the bomb as immoral, but the province's outright pacifism of World War II seemed to be gone. If there was a pattern at all, the Canadian tendency was to seek a scapegoat; more often than not it turned out to be U.S. leadership. Many newspapers across the nation splashed the news that Prime Minister Attlee was flying to Washington almost as though the editors were turning to the old country for cautious guidance that...
...their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence Kupferman reduced a tide-pool to a rich swirling pattern that looked like yellow marble...