Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backward nation, the Colombian President told a joint session of Congress, "can follow the Communist pattern in the hope that, after three or four generations of privation and bloodshed, the survivors may at last know and acquire some of the goods, services and facilities of a higher civilization. Or it can be guided by those principles and procedures through which you yourselves have come to be one of the richest, most fair-minded and happiest of nations...
...normal people, he said, the hydrocortisone output goes up sharply in the early morning hours to a peak around 6 a.m., then falls gradually to a nighttime resting level. In a rheumatoid arthritis victim, this pattern is generally reversed. Lacking adaptive ability, the patient reacts with a flare-up of disease when the cortisone tide ebbs. This may happen after delivery to a woman who has been free of arthritis symptoms during pregnancy. The letdown phenomenon is also seen in patients after long-term cortisone treatment...
...approach of Easter and an easing of the nation's worst weather in years, retail sales are riding high across the U.S. Department store sales for the last week reported were 22% above the corresponding week a year ago. Adjusted to fit the pre-Easter sales pattern (Easter this year is three weeks later than last), the figure is still 8% above the comparable 1959 week...
People are hearing the same old story, and the record is getting scratched, the needle stuck." Pattern of Hell. Many respected medical authorities flatly disagree with Bowman Gray. But then, the war against tobacco is as old as civilized man's first puff. What has changed is that the attacks that were once emotional and moral are now scientific. Ever since Columbus found the Caribbean Indians smoking "tobago" (their name for the primitive pipe in which they smoked tobacco) and smoking was introduced into Europe, the friends and foes of tobacco have been tearing at one another's T-zones...
...delicate, wide-leafed tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum) became known as "the divine herb" and "the princess of plants." But the foes of tobacco spied the devil's hoofs beneath the princess' skirt. King James I of Great Britain called tobacco "the lively image and pattern of hell," slapped on a big import tax. Louis XIII of France and Czar Michael I decreed penalties for smoking, ranging from death to castration, and Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone found smoking in church or on church premises. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds...