Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing particularly complicated about Notre Dame's passing attack; the Irish run a grand total of six pass patterns. It is how they run them that hurts. Hanratty and Seymour killed Purdue with the "shake and go" (see diagram), so it was only natural that Northwestern the next week would do everything it could to keep Jim from getting loose in the deep secondary. So what did Seymour do? He curled out to the sideline on the "X" pattern and swung back on the "fishhook," made do with 15 yds. at a crack instead of one play...
...mask hinders me." How does Seymour handle the defensive man guarding him? "The first thing I do is go out and test him. If he isn't going to back up, I run right by him and say hello. But if he does, I'll cut the pattern short. It's a little bit of a bluff...
...radar reading is relatively weak. As the projectile begins to swing broadside to the radar, however, its radar cross section increases; reflections become stronger. When the satellite's flat rear surface turns to face the radar antenna, the reflected pulses become even more intense. The changing pattern that forms on the radar screen is unique for that tumbling projectile, a distinctive signature that scientists can use to identify and describe it-much as a graphologist uses handwriting to identify the man who handled...
...known configuration. In June, RSA was employed to discover which of four solar panels on a secret Air Force satellite had not flopped into place. When telemetry failed to confirm that a boom on a gravity gradient satellite had extended, RSA recognized a change in the radar pattern that proved the boom had stretched into place. A study of the radar echoes reflected from the first Nimbus weather satellite provided tumble and spin data that were unavailable from telemetry...
...Mama's bank account, and one of the characters even drifts behind the Iron Curtain for a little daring-do. Longstreet, who has written several screenplays and a hit musical (High Button Shoes) as well as eight other novels, is an old hand at story spinning. The pattern here is familiar, but it is a nice piece of goods all the same...