Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is little sign of discontent with the squalid life. After all, poverty has been the pattern for centuries. Thousands of volunteers turned out patriotically to dig the slit trenches (Hanoi's air-raid shelters) that have been cut through the once verdant parks along the Red River and the capital's two lakes, reminders of Ho Chi Minh's grim determination to pursue his quest for control of all Viet Nam, even if it costs him his economy and the lives of his people...
...phenomenon of fire whirls was discovered accidentally by the Allies during World War II. The vortexes enormous destructive power was thes demonstrated in a raid on Dresdes, Germany, where a special bombing pattern was purposely used to facil the formation of whirls, which killed over 100,000 people...
...Charlie Brown pattern, Sparky's life was one good grief after another. School was a "harsh and strict jail." Sparky skipped a year in grade school, but later atoned for that triumph by flunking every course and being left back. His one pride was his drawing skill, and he proudly submitted some sketches to the high school yearbook; inevitably, they were rejected. He joined pickup baseball games, but his team almost always lost. "People are skeptical about Charlie Brown's losing a game 40 to nothing, but I distinctly remember a day when our team was beaten...
...stock market nor swilled bathtub gin; it was probably no accident that Andy Gump was chinless. Blondie began life as a sharp-tongued flapper, but she soon settled down to suburban housewifely routine and is still the most widely read strip.* Little Orphan Annie veered from the family pattern since she lacked parents. But Daddy Warbucks, a billionaire arms manufacturer, has more than made up for their absence. With his help, ageless Annie has plowed under no end of evildoers while issuing a steady stream of far-right propaganda attacking everything from the New Deal to modern psychiatry...
...sets and subsets incomprehensible to minds raised in the school of Big Power politics. At the same time, the cold war had also changed. Said Dean Rusk: "The cobweb syndrome, the illusion that one nation or a bloc of nations could, by coercion, weave the world into a single pattern, is fading into limbo...