Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While his father was still in Congress, Billy lived part-time in Washington, became a familiar sight in the Capitol corridors. He was a political prodigy. "His idea of a game," recalls J.R., still alive and alert at 83, "was to get a box to stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke...
...newspaper readers, the FBI is such a familiar story that J. Edgar Hoover has supplanted the vacuum cleaner as a household word for efficiency. Nevertheless, newspapers across the nation last week were breathlessly running-or preparing to run-serials on the FBI as if it were the most wanted story and the biggest since Grace Kelly took Monaco. Papers across the U.S. plugged an Associated Press series that started this week. The United Press had its own series on the FBI and the Chicago Tribune Press Service a third...
Coach Johnny Michelosen's Panthers stuck to familiar tactics too. All season long they had not run up a single first-period score; they did no better at the 'Gator Bowl. A pass interception by Tech Halfback Paul Rotenberry gave the Jackets the kind of break they have learned to look for, and they went out in front, 7-0. Tech's defense kept the Panthers' offense continually off balance. A Pitt drive died on the Tech one, and the Engineers pushed out in front, 14-0. Only a 42-yd. desperation pass that Halfback Dick...
...order to make use of all his backs, Jordan unveiled this year an offense which he had first used at Amherst--the A-formation. This system uses the familiar unbalanced line to the right, with a T-formation backfield. One of the chief advantages of this attack seemed to be that it allowed the Crimson to shift quickly to its old single-wing style...
...newly appointed Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, highbrowed, full-bearded Poet-Critic-Novelist (Pictures from an Institution) Randall Jarrell, 42, last week suggested that this is not a golden, but a "gold-plated," age. "Most of our literature," Jarrell complained, "is Instant Literature, Ready-Mixed Literature . . . easy, familiar, instantly recognizable thoughts . . . already-agreed-upon, instantly acceptable attitudes." When he turned to the visual arts, there was somewhat less jaundice in his eye but just as much cheek in his tongue: "I hardly know whether to borrow my simile from the Bible, and say flourishing like the green...