Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laurence did not entirely concur with this prediction, even though it came from Einstein. He has the scientist's habit of storing odd bits of information until they mesh, and by 1939 a pattern had begun to form. Routinely covering a scientific meeting at Columbia University that year, he carefully noted the heavy concentration of nuclear physicists and repeated allusions to "chain reaction," a phrase that meant little to him at the time. But by the following May, a story of his gave Times readers an advance look at the awesome energy packed into an isotope of uranium called...
...before Harvard fans had time to get their hopes up, the varsity ran into a powerful Army squad and succumbed, 5-1. Logically if Harvard continues to follow this pattern of alternation, it will trounce Toronto and lose to Minnesota...
...voting pattern reflected closely the discussion which preceded it. Opinion was about equally divided. The most frequent and vehement debaters were seniors, who supported the motion, and administration members, who opposed...
After Kennedy's assassination, Ruby kept calling various family members in (according to them) progressive stages of emotional disarray. And in keeping with his longtime pattern, he stuck around police headquarters, even hustling sandwiches and coffee for the newsmen who were swarming about. In a way he became a recognizable but unrecognized part of the interior decoration...
...mindedness and a penchant for sloppy dressing. He suggests also that if a list of the guests at a faculty cocktail party and a tally of their drinks could be rushed to the Harvard-M.I.T. computer center by 8 P.M., by 8:02 he could determine the exact pattern of conversation, argument, and sexual advances at the party...