Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think these people basically don't understand the problem we have with changing the land use pattern," he said. "Each added acquisistion even in itself changes further the character of the neighborhood to institutional use. Cambridge has simply got to get control over this," he added...
...pattern of the game then took over. The Harvard defense, which had been no less than spectacular before this game, just didn't have the spunk Saturday. Restic said the defense "didn't play with the same intensity it has in the past weeks in the first half...
After many Edenic millenniums an "unfortunate cosmic pattern" breaks this lock and introduces cacophony and dissonance into the new world. Almost immediately the inhabitants display symptoms of the "Degenerative Disease," a bellicose assertion of ego against the grain of the common good. Life-spans, which had stretched to a thousand years, begin shrinking dramatically; natural fulfillment is replaced by restless desires and dissatisfactions. The Canopean overseers sadly change Rohanda's name to Shikasta, "the hurt, the damaged, the wounded one." The period of earth's recorded history is about to begin...
...prose and short-essay style of the previous work, he abandons the quality that made the former special: he doesn't restrict himself entirely to his field, biology. Thomas's talent lies in his ability to notice, describe and comment on man and nature. When he strays from this pattern, he gets in trouble. In essays such as "Notes on Punctuation" he plays too many intellectual games, and his essay on etymology is simply out of place...
Chafin said leaving those items in wallets was not the usual pattern of the street criminal, adding that fact suggests they were taken by a Harvard affiliate...