Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar pattern developed in the final stanza when the spikers built and eventually lost 4-1 and 9-5 advantages. Each time Ross sparked the rallies through his emphatic inside game only to see disorganization plague the squad. Once again the Panthers intensified their serving efforts and caused havoc in Harvard's setting. As Martin said, "They got passes to their hitters very easily whereas we had to battle to set up our offense." These problems and a last Panther spike ended the game...
...Mead, then, went to Samoa, Freeman says, as Boas' disciple, a believer in the power of environment and thus bound to find evidence supporting that doctrine. Specifically, Boas sent her off to the South Seas to study, in Mead's words, "the relative strength of biological puberty and cultural pattern." There, she carried out most of her research on Samoan female adolescence by regularly seeing, mingling with, and interviewing some 25 girls between the ages of 14 and 20 over a period of several months. Almost entirely from what she learned from these girls, Mead constructed her happy picture...
...author, came in the post-war settlements. In contrast to Americans who believed that the newly developed and used atomic bomb had little leverage in U.S. foreign policy, the Soviets viewed the mighty weapon as the Allies' means to extract concessions from Stalin. Thus began the familiar pattern of Soviet attempts to match Western technological and military breakthroughs...
...picture evolves through a circular discussion of different aspects of the man, rather than unfolding in a sequentially predetermined order. In this sense it is an unorthodox biography. There His no chapters, no neatly presented "phases," no strictly chronological pattern in Hildesheimer's story. His introductory remarks on the problems of writing about Mozart spill over, undivided, into the first chosen issue of the biography...
...playing ability. Though unable to pull off any major wins on the California tour, the netmen did top high ranked San Diego State and came close to beating UCLA, one of the nation's most highly-touted squads Harvard's goal is to master a consistent winning pattern so that when tough competition comes along in a couple of weeks, the players won't have to psych themselves up, but simply play their best tennis routinely...