Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the exception of Dewey Short, few familiar faces will be missing from the next Congress. Republican Katharine St. George easily staved off the challenge of World War II Cartoonist William ("Willie and Joe") Mauldin in New York's 28th District, and Incumbent Frederic Coudert Jr. surmounted a dangerous bid by Democrat Anthony Akers, World War II PT-boat skipper. It was a bad year for basketball players too. In Kentucky, Wallace ("Wah Wah" Jones, one of the two "clean" players on the bribe-prone 1948-49 Kentucky basketball team, was smothered by Democratic Incumbent John Watts, and Minnesota...
...resolution to the Council, Lodge spoke with bluntness rare towards allies. The U.S., he said, does not believe that "in any circumstances this [Anglo-French] ultimatum would be justifiable or ... consistent with the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter." In the debate that followed, the U.N.'s familiar two-sided world came unstuck. Sobolev eagerly announced that "the Soviet delegation is prepared to vote in favor of the U.S. draft resolution . . ." When the vote came, Britain and France, the two historic allies of the U.S.. vetoed the U.S. proposal. It was Britain's first veto...
Captain Milburn G. Apt, who flew the X-2 on her last flight, was new at the job. He was an experienced test pilot and familiar with jet aircraft, but he had never handled the X-2 or any other rocket plane. Air experts have wondered why he was not permitted to take it easy the first time and fly the X-2 slowly (maybe twice the speed of sound) until he got the feel...
...Pontiac, which planned only a minor face-lift for 1957, rushed through a major styling change to keep pace with competitors. The familiar "silver streak" hood stripes have been dropped in favor of an uncluttered hood; both grille and tailfins are new; the body is 3½ in. lower and packs a larger engine with a 43-h.p. boost to 270 h.p. in the bigger V-8 engine...
...most important task fell to the singers themselves. The great majority had never had major roles before and few of those who had stage experience had sung in grand opera. Still fewer were familiar with Boris Goldovsky's directing techniques as presented by Schoep...