Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That pattern began to take shape almost as soon as Maryland-born Ed Carter quit the May Co. in 1946 to join Broadway (he took a $10,000 salary cut in return for stock options). His first move was to stop construction of a small new branch, double its size (and cost) and convert it into the national prototype of regional shopping centers with ample parking, underground deliveries, competing stores in the same complex. Unable to invade the rich San Francisco market directly, Carter doubled his sales by merging with Hale Bros later bought up the Dohrmann Hotel Supply chain...
...into the war last June. Though each plane's sortie on the 5,200-mile round trip from Guam costs $30,000, the B-52s have distinct merits. Each can carry 20,000 Ibs. of the 750-lb. and 1,000-lb. bombs, deliver them in a saturation pattern that fighter-bombers cannot duplicate-on targets the Viet Cong do not know in advance. How many V.C. are killed in each strike is hard to say. But the point is to keep the enemy off balance. Last week Washington announced that imbalance was here to stay: from...
...newer detection methods is echoencephalography, working on the same principle as sonar. When sound waves are bounced in and out of the head and converted into a light pattern, the neurologist can see whether the brain has been shoved to one side by blood or a clot. Injections of radiopaque dye also help X rays to show whether arteries have been displaced or damaged enough to deprive part of the brain of its blood supply. Even using these techniques, doctors do not always discover everything...
...videcon tube, much like a standard TV camera tube, "sees" the picture or other photographable object. The tube stores the image in the form of a pattern of varying intensities of light and dark. This pattern is then scanned by an electron beam, which registers the value of the light intensities, from white to grey to black. The electronic signal is next transmitted by radio or ordinary telephone line to a receiving screen...
...makes delectable use of metaphor, hyperbole, quotation and epigram to facilitate comprehension. The narration itself forms a lacy fabric composed of a series of narrative loops, deftly thrown into the past and winding up where they started. Each loop fills a tiny chapter, and 121 chapters make a calculated pattern that is as satisfying (and sometimes as claustrophobic) as only perfection...