Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve-hour day, riding with the President, pushing through crowds with him, Bell saw familiar scenes. When the blue peaks of the mountain province came into view, he turned to Magsaysay and said: "Legally, those mountains belong to you, but I'll always have extralegal claim to them because my mother is buried there...
...waved his arms, flashed his eyes and showered the U.N. Security Council with words. When the torrent finally petered out, the exhausted Menon held the alltime U.N. record for a single speech-7 hours 48 minutes. It was a performance worthy of a Southern Senator, and had a purpose familiar to any Southern filibusterer hoping to frustrate the majority will. Menon was out to stall Security Council proceedings while India's moralizing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru completed India's illegal annexation of most of the strategic state of Kashmir...
...Vatican's walls, Pope Pius XII journeyed a short distance in Rome, appeared at the sooth anniversary celebration of the Collegio Capranica, a small but distinguished seminary (world's oldest) where he was a young student 62 years ago. His Holiness kissed the feet of an old familiar crucifix, inspected the tiny room he once occupied, presented the college with a pearl-encrust ed chalice as a quincentennial present...
...opposition this time. Its scoring star, jumping Joe Tebo, was hampered with a slight injury the first game, and tallied only 10 points. Now fully recovered, tomrrow he will probably approach his last year's league average, 23.5 points per game. Also Brown will have the advantage of a familiar court and a friendly crowd...
Raisz is often called upon to undertake special projects. The familiar map of Harvard, for instance, is his work. Last year he did a relief globe of the Earth, six feet in diameter, which he carved from plaster of Paris. It is now being commercially manufactured from rubber. His own particular interest is the "land-type" map, a colored version of the landform. The colors, however, do not represent different heights--they indicate the vegetation and cultivation of the land. This comes closest, he says, to a "true portrait of the face of Mother Earth...