Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while the sperm are being produced in the father's testes. In any case, the test has already been put to important clinical use. At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, for example, a two-year-old child with an enlarged clitoris but a seemingly normal XX chromosome pattern was tested for H-Y antigen. The assay turned out positive, and subsequent surgery revealed the reason: she was a hermaphrodite, with dual sexual organs-an ovary on one side and a combination of ovary and testis on the other. The doctors promptly removed the ovotestis, thereby reducing the danger...
...matter what their target-gnat or giant-the little men can be big trouble. Is overcompensation, a Napoleon complex? Gray admits to a special joy in beating the big guys. Says he: "I like to look at the expressions on their faces after I beat them running a goal pattern. After I catch the ball, I look over my shoulder and watch them...
...foul trouble and an inability to get the offense moving smoothly again plagued the women Saturday afternoon. Kleinfelder's free-wheeling, motion offense has not yet found a successful pattern of movement, and much of the women's scoring came on solo efforts...
King and Nadja B. Gould, a former UHS research assistant in psychology, uncovered this pattern in a study this past summer, which culminated in a paper entitled "Patterns of Tobacco Use Among Undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges...
...THERE WERE such a thing as a death wish for albums, this one would have it--it is a record that fairly thumbs its nose at the Intelligent Rock Listener, inside and out. The cover art, for one thing, is nightmarish--bright red lettering, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern spelling out "Elvis is King," and Costello himself feering out from a lurid yellow background. He clutches a Fender menacingly, and leans forward in that half-aggressive pigeon-toed stance so dear to the hearts of '50s rockers; his eyes are genuinely loony, wild and dangerous-looking, behind huge Buddy...