Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then McCormack's hand-picked moderates on the subcommittee retired to hammer out the plank. No one familiar with the unpredictable Democrats was willing to guess what shape it would take. But one thing was certain: civil-rights thunder was going to continue to mutter over the Democrats for a long time to come...
...hostility towards him. On the contrary, we made agreements with him . . . Instead of meeting us with friendship, Colonel Nasser has conducted a vicious propaganda campaign against our country . . . And now he has torn up all his country's promises toward the Suez Canal Company . . . The pattern is familiar to many of us, my friends. We all know it is how fascist governments behave, and we all remember only too well what the cost can be in giving in to fascism. We do not seek a solution by force . . . But this I must make plain: we cannot agree that...
...Having taught college mathematics for several years, the writer is familiar with the situation described in your July 28 article and heartily approves any attempt to improve it. One of the illustrations is not clear: "For every x and y, if the cost of a book is 2y - 3 dollars, then the total cost of 7x such books...
Such ads are a familiar sight on the real-estate pages of U.S. newspapers, and every year more private houses are converted into small nursing homes for oldsters and invalids. There are now about 7,700 such homes in the U.S., caring for nearly 150,000 people. But many of the "beautiful country estates'' are firetraps, inadequately adapted for hospital use. Grim evidence of that fact was furnished last week in Puxico, Mo. There, in a 50-year-old wood-frame house. Mrs. Bertha Reagan, 53, a practical nurse, ran a convalescent home that technically conformed to state...
...minimize dull spots, convention machinery will grind faster. Promised Democratic Chairman Paul Butler: "We are planning a brisk, businesslike affair." ¶ The familiar red-white-blue bunting has been discarded in favor of "simple, dignified, and at the same time, traditional" decor, predominantly TV blue...