Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, as regular as clockwork, Algeria's Minister Resident Robert Lacoste issued another of his familiar claims -that the rebels are on the run, and everything will shortly get better if the present policy is followed...
...worker who had seen regular service in the Greek cavalry. U.S. military aid was pouring into Athens, but Soviet arms were also pouring across the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders to help the guerrillas. The situation had the makings of a minor war on the pattern that was to become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos was reported "seriously ill." In the confusion the small, tough Greek army (with expert military guidance by U.S. General James A. Van Fleet) was able...
Another of Professor Thompson's works, the Familiar Alleluia, was performed following the award of a Harvard Glee Club medal to the composer. In his presentation Professor Wodworth spoke high praise of his colleague's contribution to the choral repertory, a tribute seconded by the warm appreciation of the audience...
...Gilkyson, son of a Pennsylvania insurance executive, who teamed up five years ago with ex-Truck Driver Richard Dehr and sometime Real-Estate Man Frank Miller to form a trio called The Easy Riders. They have sold more than half a million copies of a ditty called Marianne, long familiar to Caribbean tourists. Although this version's heroine is a sweet girl whom even "little children" love, her origins show through the bowdlerized lyrics...
Plastic Lung. To the surgeon the heart is the center of a familiar but complex machine (see diagram). Used blood, from which all the body's tissues have removed nourishing oxygen, returns through the two great veins (superior and inferior vena cava) to the right upper chamber (auricle). It empties from there through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. This muscular chamber contracts and pushes the blood through the pulmonary valve and pulmonary artery to the lungs to pick up fresh oxygen. Reddened blood returns to the left auricle, passes through the mitral valve into the left ventricle...