Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through TV, millions of Americans have become thoroughly familiar with sports they once knew only through the often unreliable and overblown prose of sportswriters. "I'd travel around in the 1920s and 1930s and tell people that pro football was a good game," says Illinois All-America Red Grange, "and they'd laugh at me. 'Did you ever see a game?' I'd ask them. 'Well, no, they'd say." Former New York Giants Halfback Frank Gifford, who did not come into the National Football League until 1952, remembers going home to California...
Radio Bucharest last week played a tune that is becoming all too familiar in Eastern Europe. In scolding tones, it took Rumania's factory and office workers to task for "unexpected absences, temporary disappearances from the job, late starting and early finishing, too many conferences during working hours, and too much time spent on social activities on the job." At about the same time, Poland's Communist daily, Trybuna Ludu, warned Polish workers to lay off card playing and vodka drinking during working hours-practices that it charged are widespread. Reporting the "agony" of watching workers standing around...
Although hovercraft are still a novelty in North America and in most other parts of the world, they are becoming familiar in Britain, where they work as ferries between coastal resort towns and ply the cross-Channel route between England and France. Experimental military and civilian hovercraft skim along waterways and across marshes in Britain. And the hovercraft principle of using a thin layer of air to move heavy loads is finding increasing applications in British industry and transportation...
...talented duo of U.S. moon robots is making man even more familiar with his nearest neighbor in space. From the prying cameras of Surveyor 3, which landed on the moon last April, and Orbiter 4, which last week was circling the moon, scientists were provided with movies, color pictures and a wealth of new insight into ancient lunar secrets...
...Then began a life pattern that would soon become familiar in U.S. cultural pursuits-in which hundreds of the gifted, the talented or the merely qualified would live from grant to mouth, or move, like modern Lollard friars, from college to college, claiming hospitality by right of authorship. The Lowells drifted to Louisiana State University, and then back to Kenyon. Lowell's poetry was excruciatingly difficult and ambiguous; as he said later, "it really wasn't poetry...