Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huff. Walkouts and boycotts are by now a familiar, if unpleasant, occurrence to the U.N. But this was the first time a government had gone so far as to pull out its entire delegation and to suggest out loud that it would consider withdrawing from the world organization. U.N. diplomats were stunned by the radical method France had chosen to resist any international meddling in the affairs of the North Africa territory that for more than a century has been administered as a part of metropolitan France...
...identities of the searched. The majority, like Father Huddleston, were simply open and avowed opponents of Prime Minister Strydom's apartheid policy, which seeks to establish absolute white supremacy in a country where whites are outnumbered four to one. Although the police committed many of the stupidities made familiar in other mass raids (seized from private libraries as possible evidence: Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment), they were able to seize the records of some 50 opposition organizations and groups, some of which are proCommunist. For all the police fanfare...
...more brooding in their lostness, but they fumble and philosophize, care or cease to care, without much individuality. Had there never been a Chekhov, A Day by the Sea might provide a rather welcome breath of fresh-airlessness. As it is, the effect seems both too faint and too familiar...
...difference. There were more pictures-some spread across two pages or running necklace-fashion around text. There were wider margins, gaps of white space, splashier illustrations, and a Collier's-like short-short story. As body type for its stories and articles, the Satevepost replaced its familiar Century Schoolbook type with a lighter version of an old-fashioned design by John Baskerville, great and good friend of Satevepost Patron Saint Benjamin Franklin...
...travelers, the airplane is fast becoming almost as familiar as the family car. In 1955 scheduled domestic airlines will gross an estimated $1.1 billion, flying 35 million passengers 20 billion miles, 20% more than last year's alltime record. A few years hence, airmen predict, the fast-growing airlines will push out railroads as the No. 1 public means of mass travel. As a result, U.S. civil air policy, as laid down by the Civil Aeronautics Board, is undergoing a radical change. Once CAB nursed along the fledgling industry by spoon-feeding it Government subsidies and holding back competition...