Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar cry "Man on" may soon end in the Radeliffe dormitories. The parietals committee of RUS will meet on Wednesday to discuss the possibility of dorm autonomy in deciding the extent or existence of parietal limitations...
...works of the Harvard University Press, few are as little read as the course catalogue. Most students will carefully examine only a few of the 515 pages in this year's edition. They stay on familiar grounds, looking for the most part only at the courses 15 or 20 numbers removed from those they took last year...
...family and subordinates, taken by L.B.J.'s ubiquitous official photographer, Yoichi Okamoto, 54. Okamoto had served the President as a sort of benign paparazzo during the White House years, recording most of L.B.J.'s waking moments and some of his sleeping ones, too. The photographer was a familiar sight at every Cabinet meeting, every National Security Council meeting. Johnson wanted Okamoto with him constantly, taking pictures of L.B.J. with Congressmen, L.B.J. with Kosygin, L.B.J. with grandson Lyn, even L.B.J. getting out of bed in the morning. Once, at his Texas ranch, Johnson directed Okamoto: "Get the back...
...necessary evil; at its best, it is a handy verbal tool to avoid making enemies needlessly, or shocking friends. Language purists and the blunt-spoken may wince when a young woman at a party coyly asks for directions to "the powder room," but to most people this kind of familiar euphemism is probably no more harmful or annoying than, say, a split infinitive...
...life that humanity considers too private, or too close to feelings of guilt, to speak about directly. Like stammers or tears, euphemisms will be created whenever men doubt, or fear, or do not know. The instinct is not wholly unhealthy; there is a measure of wisdom in the familiar saying that a man who calls a spade a spade is fit only...