Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last night the A.P. reported a Defense Department spokesman announcing "the United States is ready to sink every Communist bloc ship headed for Cuba which refused to stop and be searched." Under these circumstances it is too late to start unravelling the complex pattern of blame and hostility that the United States and Cuban governments helped each other weave...
Flourish or Flounder. The calculated result of such hands-off supervision is a press confederacy whose members take strength from association but are permitted to flourish or flounder almost entirely on their own. Scripps-Howard papers do both, in a pattern as diversified as the U.S. press at large. Items: > Perennially third in a field of three papers, the tabloid Washington Daily News not only returns a tidy profit but has taught its bigger competitors a journalistic trick or two. Shrewdly leaving politics to the Post (Democratically inclined) and the Star (Republican), bulky, freckled Editor John O'Rourke beams...
Finally, on the third try, a group of Crimson men stopped him. This run was the pattern for many others: Crimson holders were repeatedly shaken off as inconsequential objects, and it nearly always took a joint effort to bring a Crusader down...
...actual experimentation, the electron beam will be aimed at a protonrich liquid hydrogen target. The electrons will be scattered as they emerge from the target. Scientists hope that close study of the scattering pattern may yield clues to the internal composition of the proton, which is no longer considered an indivisible particle but rather a composite of smaller bodies...
...letter after the date. Each time the signatures on the bill change, however, a letter of the alphabet is added after the year. Thus the second issue of Series 1935 was Series 1935A. Since no major change in currency design was adopted until the 1955 legislation, the 1935 pattern carried all the way through Series 1936F which bore the signatures of Ivy Baker Priest and Robert B. Anderson...