Word: pattering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...life of crime back in the 1930s. Caryl Chessman was a bumbling criminal, but he had a special genius: he has always known by instinct the intricate combinations that lead to the law's heart. In his teens he won second chances (for more crime) with a patter of contrition and redemption. ("I now see crime in its true light. I feel a keen desire to rid myself completely of it.") In reform school, jail and prison he worked so diligently at worthy projects, e.g., once he wrote a constitution and bylaws for a youngsters' anti-dope league...
Ever since Freudian patter became the common currency of the cocktail hour, the idea has been spreading that people who have accidents are "accident-prone." But for a massive group of accident victims-the 8,000 U.S. pedestrians killed each year by motor vehicles-there is no clear medical evidence one way or the other. Last week an American College of Surgeons meeting in Boston learned the results of an intensive and ingenious study that enlisted experts from the New York State Department of Health and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Cornell University Medical College, the office of New York...