Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole appointment pattern there was further indication that Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower is spreading the staff idea through Government, has shaped "deputy" into a potent word...
...soon, perhaps late in April, the U.S. Air Force plans to test-fire its first intercontinental ballistic missile, the Atlas. Known to its keepers as "the Bird," Atlas presses evenly, inevitably, inexorably, upon the visible pattern of U.S. defense, industry and life, including Southern motels (see cut). For the story of the man, Air Force Major General Ben A. Schriever, who has the responsibility of developing the ICBM as an operational weapon, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Bird & the Watcher...
...Markos Vafiades, a onetime tobacco worker who had seen regular service in the Greek cavalry. U.S. military aid was pouring into Athens, but Soviet arms were also pouring across the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders to help the guerrillas. The situation had the makings of a minor war on the pattern that was to become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos was reported "seriously ill." In the confusion the small, tough Greek army (with expert military guidance by U.S. General James...
...crescendos, diminuendos. Thus, a rest after a note may mean that phrase should be broken off abruptly, and a heavy dot may mean that a jump should be bouncy. A diminuendo indicates a relaxation of the dance. Laderman's notations, however, give no indication of the actual dance pattern; that is still the business of the choreographer...
...which plant, animal and human life depends. They knew that chlorophyll by itself has no photosynthetic power. Only when it is contained in extremely small structures found in green leaves can it use the energy of light to release hydrogen from water, the first step in photosynthesis. The orderly pattern of the molecules in these bodies, say Drs. Melvin Calvin and Power B. Sogo of the University of California at Berkeley, is the key to the process...