Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successfully led a fight to refuse to seat Hungarian delegates to an International Labor Organization meeting at Geneva. Last week the Reds' anger spilled over. U.S. First Secretary James W. Pratt was summoned to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, presented with a note full of familiar trumped-up charges of U.S. espionage and subversion, told that henceforth the 32 Americans attached to the legation could not travel farther than 25 miles from Budapest without giving 48 hours' advance notice. In retaliation, the U.S. imposed similar restrictions on Hungarian diplomats in Washington and New York...
Every few years, in early summer, the U.S. is treated to an old, familiar spectacle. With flourish and fanfare, the representatives of the U.S. steel industry's management and labor sit down to negotiate a new wage agreement, working against the steadily approaching threat of a strike deadline. Labor cockily demands a fat wage hike-and management just as cockily turns it down. Eight times since World War II they have fought their suspenseful duel; five times it resulted in strikes, three times in an early agreement. This week the U.S. was up against the old deadline once more...
...most "off-beat" number of the evening was a flamenco instrumental on the banjo. Gibson took a familiar Andalusian melody and arranged it for five-string banjo, with striking results...
Most of Mr. Wilbur's poems were easier for the listener, for they are less compact, more filled out with sometimes excess adjectives. He began with several works probably familiar to many members of the audience, including the excellent "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," and the sharp and effective "Voice From Under the Table." Later in the program he moved to most recent works, with a neat contrast between two love poems, "Someone Talking to Himself" --very world-renouncing and romantic--and "Loves of the Puppets," in the same vein as "Voice from Under the Table...
...most powerful parliamentary speeches of his career, white-thatched old (72) Ben-Gurion, dressed in his familiar open-necked shirt, assailed his critics for deliberately stirring up anti-German feeling. He cited Cabinet minutes to show that the leftist parties' leaders approved last December the deal they now denounced as "selling arms to the devil...