Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defended by carefully sited automatic weapons. But there were immediate problems in the olive grove. Inevitably, the trucks and heavy combat vehicles of the 187th were barging into some of the olive trees causing damage, and there was the question of compensation for the Lebanese olive growers. Mutually satisfactory method of compensation : count the olives on each ruined tree; figure out the estimated life of the tree; pay out the estimated lifetime revenue of the tree, up to 100 years...
Slowly Voigt caught on to the fact that in militaristic Prussia the badge of authority was invariably accepted as the real thing. Once free, he bought a captain's uniform and commandeered a squad of soldiers by the simple method of walking up to them and ordering them to follow him. Barking "Los" with all the crisp confidence of a drill instructor, he led his band on a raid of Koepenick's town hall, arrested the bumbling mayor and treasurer, walked off with the contents of the town till. Later, after Voigt gave himself up in return...
Secondly, he called for "some bold, basic research" to determine how superior teaching can be extended to an increased number of qualified students. Next, he said, the U.S. must re-examine its aims and methods, noting that the present process of analysis and dissection is "not creative," but merely "an excellent method of producing cultural and scientific caretakers...
...This method of building the commercial into the drama is the most distinctive feature of television in Japan, a nation rapidly becoming as TV-obsessed as the U.S. In a soap opera, A Comic Housemaid, the heroine habitually complains of a racking headache in midscene, gulps down an Arakawa Drug Co. remedy and announces: "Now I'm ready for anything." One private eye uses a drugstore as rendezvous-a drugstore whose shelves are conspicuously filled with the sponsor's patent medicines. In another samurai episode, the hero vanquished a batch of evildoers, then warily approached a wayside shrine...
...operation that heart surgeons have long hoped to achieve was reported last week by a Yale University surgeon: a successful method of bypassing the right side of the heart in patients with certain kinds of defects. These may be in the heart itself and in the adjacent great vessels, and of a type that defies repair even when the heart is laid open with the aid of a heart-lung machine. Dr. William W. L. Glenn's case is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine...