Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright, ordinary high school auditorium, scene of a thousand earnest morning assemblies, commencements and Christmas pageants. Last week, instead of the familiar back-to-school routine, it featured a hearing-very nearly a trial-of considerable drama. Before a crowd of parents, teachers and reporters, a pretty, dark-eyed girl with long blonde hair testified that one of her teachers had molested her. Most schools sooner or later experience similar episodes, and the whole affair seemed to evoke some half-remembered "children's hours" from the movies. What made this case look different was the fact that the accused...
...walks with a permanent limp, the souvenir of a day at Daytona, Fla., when his car hurtled through a guardrail at 155 m.p.h., soared 150 ft. through the air, landed upside down in a parking lot. Lee retired from racing in 1962, but he is still a familiar figure around the track. Last May he was in Darling ton, S.C., to watch Son Richard break his record by winning victory No. 55 of his career. And last week he was back in Darlington cheering from the pits as Richard won his 21st race of the year, the Southern...
...Chicago, some 2,000 New Left radicals met in a "National Conference for New Politics," where Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. drew the familiar parallel between domestic ills and involvement in Viet Nam. He added: "Nothing more clearly demonstrates our nation's abuse of military power than our tragic adventure in Viet Nam. This war has played havoc with the destiny of the entire world...
Instructions for cannibals who have literary ambitions? Hardly. That grim promise is simply one dose of the tough talk that is familiar fare on Radio Mogadishu, the official voice of the Republic of Somalia. For the past four years, Somalia has been working over time to keep Somali guerrillas, who are called shifta (bandits), in revolt against the government of Kenya...
...British Astronomer Zdeněk Kopal. None of the other 1,000 astronomers gathered in Prague last week for the 13th meet ing of the International Astronomical Union disputed him. They had just seen giant new U.S. and Russian charts of the moon's hidden farside. Together with familiar maps of the lunar near side, the charts did indeed give man a clearer view of the moon's features than of the earth's surface, large portions of which are hidden by water, camouflaged by vegetation and frequently obscured by cloud cover...