Word: patterning
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Half hour later, Britain's busy Mosquitoes stung Frankfurt again, demoralized its weary firefighters. That pattern, by night and by day, will flower into bloody bloom in many another German city before spring...
Prize: An Airfield. From their beachheads the Marines plunged along jungle trails to the main Jap positions. At Cape Gloucester the Japs had hacked a pattern of runways through the coconut groves, had built a staging point for barges bound from Rabaul, on New Britain's northeast tip, to outposts in northern New Guinea...
Four Tools. These men were tools, and behind each was a chain of higher and higher personages reaching up to the topmost ranks of Naziism's hierarchy. Steadily, implacably, the Soviet courts would follow up this chain. At Kharkov, the pattern of prosecution, trial and judgment was unfolded...
...Fats a big stripling of 17. No one has ever given a better description of what happened than Jimmie himself gave last week: "I taught him how to groove, how to make it sweet-the strong bass he had dates from that time. He stuck pretty well to my pattern-developed a lovely singing tone, a lyric, melodic expression, and then too, him being the son of a preacher, he had fervor...
...chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. Navy psychiatrists have learned by experience that such a recruit is not necessarily a psychiatric personality unfit for service; he may be a perfectly normal guy from Brooklyn. Says the New York State Journal of Medicine, the Navy doctors have christened this "harmless social pattern" the "Brooklyn syndrome [set of symptoms...