Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cracking the Code. Their big problem was to crack Michigan's defense code-a highly complex system of interrelated maneuvers which football savants describe by such terms as "angles," "loops," "converging" and "dealing in." If Army could unscramble the pattern so as to sense, a few seconds in advance, what combinations Michigan was likely to use in certain situations, it would give the team a priceless edge. Blaik cracked the code thoroughly enough to devote most of spring and autumn practice to drilling his boys in Michiganisms...
...held out for a fixed-parity support. Aiken's plan would allow a flexible parity range from 60 to 90 percent of the base period, depending on current agricultural conditions but still securing a parity principle in the long run. Meanwhile, Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan introduced a complex farm program so confusing that the Republicans saw their chance to push a plan of their...
...came a diagnosis that was news to no one: the theater suffers from a tangled complex of ills, overwhelmingly economic, with most theater people ready to put the blame on the other fellow. Chief causes of high ticket prices: the high costs of theater rentals, sets, props, costumes, labor and the fumbling inefficiency of some producers...
Application of these basically simple remedies may be a complex job, sometimes even requiring hypnosis. At 35, Salter is an acknowledged master of the behavioristic school's technique. With it, he claims to have cured a businessman of blushing, a young woman of stuttering, a society girl of flatulence, an ex-cabin boy of homosexuality, a doctor and his wife of morphine addiction...
...kept control of them through two World Wars and innumerable political upheavals by means of a bewilderingly complex holding company, incorporated in Belgium, called SOFINA (Société Financieère de Transports et d'Entreprises Industrielles)* The value-and power-of SOFINA is Heineman's secret. But its five-year battle with March over Ebro makes E. Phillips Oppenheim's stories read like fairy tales. Says Dannie Heineman, with icy anger: "I'm no angel, but I've always been a builder. Juan March has always grabbed what he wanted. He wanted Ebro...