Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Test Pilot Charles Yeager,at much higher altitudes, reported "serious disorientation in his 13th second of weightlessness." Yeager, writes Major Simons, "got the impression that he was spinning around slowly in no particularly defined direction. After 15 seconds he became lost in space and pulled out [of his flight pattern]. With his returning weight his badly needed orientation was restored too." Mouse Trap. Reviewing one of the basic pieces of no-gravity research, Major Simons analyzes the 1952 test flight of two mice in the test of an Aerobee rocket...
...Western hem of the Iron Curtain has worried many designers of the Atlantic coalition. In their Paris, London and Washington shops, theses men are fearful that the new line putt out by the slick stylists of the Kremlin may draw off much of the demand for their new pattern. But of all the Russian offerings, most concern has focused on a striking neutral creation called "Reunified Germany" which has excited considerable interest among Europeans...
...danger of being labeled and passed off as just another member of a group in whose work readers of poetry have come to expect generally good craftsmanship, an unusual precision of language, and disappointingly little in the way of content. In the most important respect, however, Honig breaks this pattern; his poems are indeed characterized by the precision of the scholar, but they try to be serious comments on matters of unusually basic importance. The title of his recently published volume, The Moral Circus, is indicative of this intention...
...Fund handed out money to every deserving cause without a guiding policy, it would soon find its vast resources dissipated in the final analysis on worthless projects. The Foundation, therefore, has chosen to allocate its resources to five areas in a definite pattern...
That sign heralded a revolution of sorts in Kansas City, Mo. Ever since World War II, the city's colored population has been busting out of the downtown area recognized as the "Negro district." The pattern was familiar and explosive: panic sales by white residents, mass meetings, homemade bombs, a few fast-buck real-estate men cashing in on the white flight from Negro neighbors. Few liked to talk about it in public, but one Sunday Pastor Sturgess brought the subject out into the light. "Whether it be a matter of selling one's home or fleeing...