Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in regular season play, Harvard hasn't lost to Clarkson since 1964. To the trained eye, it appears that a pattern emerges somewhere in there, and it would therefore be safe to say that 'we've got their number...
...This pattern, however, didn't hold for the second half of the season, as the squad dropped ten of its last fifteen contests. Included among those were losses to such weak sisters as Colgate, St. Lawrence, Vermont and Providence. In fact, Clarkson has lost at least one game to about everyone on its schedule...
...drug's effects on the body can, in fact, be deadly. Most doctors prescribe methaqualone in capsules of 150 mg. to 300 mg., one of which should be enough to put the average adult to sleep. But drug abusers are not content with such tame dosages. Their usual pattern is to take two or more, and then wash them down with a few pints of beer...
Characters with typical Pynchon names cope in various ways. Pirate Prentice, a source of sentiment and life's small pleasures, whips up a batch of fried bananas. Elsewhere, Statistician Roger Mexico plots the distribution pattern of the rocket strikes according to a probability equation. But his data is no help. The odds of getting killed remain constant. "Each hit is independent of all others," Roger explains. "Bombs are not dogs. No link. No memory. No conditioning...
...Manhattan town house. After the draining experience of Night Music, however, he plans to sit and read for a while, and will eventually wind up, no doubt, at the remote mountaintop house he and his wife Judy have in Majorca. "I am going to try to break the pattern," he says. "My God, I've been at this for 20 years...