Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...random experiment, throws himself into the public eye by suing the government for his life's subsequent turmoil; a Vietnam veteran, past 30, goes to Florida to watch the filming of a T.V. documentary about his sensational escape from prison camp a decade before. Or the pattern is inverted in "Some Straight Numb Commitment." A pair of teenagers married straight out of high school become hired "parents" to a flabby mental case in his 20s, and his insanity tinges their inexperience with crazy shades of age and sexual maturity. Age roles are almost always convoluted and distorted...
...zone, the Crimson began to fall back into the old pattern. Hobbled by their lack of height (the tallest girl on the roster is Freshman Wendy Joseph, officially listed at six feet, but probably closer to 5-ft. 10-in.), the hoopsters needed a strong defense to prevent the oppostion's big women from getting open inside for the easy shots. An inability to do that has marked Harvard's first three losses, most notably in the 94-38 Northwestern debacle last weekend...
...pattern repeated itself when midway in the second half, the defense began to falter, and Ready, who led all scorers with 18 points, got open to shoot or pass off to teammate Gwen Jones, who tossed in 11 more...
...counter employee puts it, the store gets "weird, but boring." Harvard's influence on the franchise is more noticeable during the summer, when business drops 30 per cent. The peaks and lows produced by reading period, finals, and the stretches in between when students get locked into a pattern of nightly munchie-hunting also affect sales...
...average sale is, in fact, about $1.50, Higgins says, but that takes into account the 340 sales a day of a single can of soda, the people who come just for a break and buy a single three-cent mint, and, conversely, the ones who are locked into a pattern of four or five dollars worth a night...