Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the satellites so far shot into orbit, perhaps the most useful to man was Tiros I, the "weather eye," whose pictures of the earth's cloud pattern gave a valuable overall view of global weather. Last week the U.S. launched Tiros II, to improve on the work of its predecessor. The 280-lb., drum-shaped satellite, spangled with 9,260 solar cells, went into a nearly circular orbit about 400 miles above the earth. All except one of its instruments worked fine; only the wide-angle TV camera for photographing large-scale cloud cover was out of kilter...
...very much moved by your Oct. 31 story of Mark Higgins and his death in the Congo. He did a brave and wonderful thing in refusing to accept the "set pattern" by choosing to work in Africa with Missionary Albert Schweitzer...
Aimed at Everybody. Sylvia asks the reader to come equipped with nothing more than an interest in a basic commodity: money. She supplies the rest, in a pattern so skillfully simple, informal and clear that it slides readily even into the nonexpert mind. "Increasing productivity" turns into "a bigger output per man per hour." "Discount rate" becomes "borrowing rate." Rather than indulge in bafflegab, Sylvia takes a paragraph to explain the jargon...
...Governor Davis warning that he would "use the full power of my office" against further obstruction to the court order, has been blatantly ignored. While a word from President Eisenhower himself might have added moral conviction to the stand taken by the Supreme Court, the President has repeated the pattern he followed in Little Rock: a reluctance to act firmly and quickly. Since he has left the question open, Louisiana has attempted to feel out President-elect Kennedy's position. The state representatives met with Clark Clifford, the Senator's spokesman on the matter. They came away saying...
Criticizing those who judge all novels against a preconceived moral pattern, Wilson urged that the only quality that one can reasonably demand of a novel its that it reflect a highly personal, passionate response to life, that it be vitally concerned with the fortunes of individual human begins. The function of the novel, he argued, is not to effect reforms or make a sick society well...