Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator Kennedy's less than subtle, self-emulatory campaign and his image-making political antics disgust the rational, intelligent voter and remind one of Abe Lincoln's familiar quote: "You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time...
...expected, there were days when the supply of columnists seemed almost suffocating. Most performed predictably: Joseph Alsop was back full of high optimism about the war in Viet Nam; Henry J. Taylor took up space with a familiar complaint about undercover "Red spies" at the U.N. Others lent the paper a noticeable lift. Dick Schaap and Jimmy Breslin took a fresh look at the opening of the city's schools and a dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan opera. Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker was at her caustic best...
Even the local legal ground rules were strained by Kinsey's trial; under Tanzanian law, the verdict is rendered by two assessors before it is either accepted or rejected by the presiding judge. Assessors are supposed to be familiar with the customs of the accused's tribe, and Kinsey had to settle for one U.S. citizen, Soil Conservationist Gail Bagley of Elsberry, Mo. The second assessor was a bespectacled Tanzanian economist, Fred Mugobi, who was at least American-educated. The defense counsel was a British-trained, Kenya-born attorney of Greek parentage-Byron Georgiadis...
...sources outside the solar system. Their search was not rewarded until 1962, when more sensitive instruments picked up the first X-ray emissions from outside the solar system. But until this year, only one additional visible object had been definitely identified as an X-ray producer: the familiar Crab Nebula.* Though their relatively crude instruments sensed X rays from about two dozen other vaguely defined areas of the sky, astronomers have been un able to tell which, if any, of the known celestial bodies were producing them. Now X-ray astronomy seems to be coming of age. The strongest...
...question for six years, and has caught up with what he is convinced is the answer. Obviously, if Earhart simply died in a plane accident, there would be no need for a book. By stitching surmise to fact, Goerner makes a book that barely hangs together. His tantalizing if familiar theory is that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were on an unofficial spy mission for the U.S. when they crashed and fell into Japanese hands...