Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, the Governor's familiar face and homey presence do not arouse much ardor among the voters. At the Los Angeles County fair in September, as the Governor was trying to galvanize a small audience with the glories of the state park program, hundreds of fairgoers strolled past with hardly a backward look. With a touch of sadness, Pat shouted at them "It's important that you know about this. You put your money in taxes, and this is what we do with it." Though he is trim and tanned and tips the scales at precisely the same...
...stern but high principles. He was also an inveterate writer of incisive letters to the editor. In one answer to a two-column attack by Harold Ickes, he skewered his opponent as a man "who has painted a word portrait of me in his own image. This tendency is familiar to psychiatrists...
...assault with force during an attempted rape, Robert C. Jordan Jr. was sent to California's Soledad prison in 1958 for an "indeterminate" sentence of six months to ten years-with a chance for early parole if he behaved. He did not. By last year, Jordan was a familiar tenant of Soledad's Adjustment Center, in what the prison calls a "strip cell" for "incorrigibles...
Treason has many faces, and most of them are familiar to Dame Rebecca West. Her studies of such traitors as Lord Haw-Haw, Klaus Fuchs, Pontecorvo and the Rosenbergs, explored the wide range of motives that can impel a man to betrayal. Sometimes, as in the case of Lord Haw-Haw or Fuchs, the traitor is distinguished from the patriot mainly by a loyalty turned upside down. Sometimes the reason is outside compulsion: John Vassall, a homosexual in the British embassy in Moscow, claimed that he turned informer under threat of exposure by the Russians...
...Crimson, in contrast, fell into the familiar quagmire: it kept the ball in scoring territory for a good amount of time, but got off only a measly seven shots...