Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month ago at Chicago's Billings Hospital (TIME, April 11), were learning to walk straight ahead by themselves instead of sidewise in tandem, as they had when they were joined at the abdomen. Their recovery after the successful operation was probably speeded by the presence of their familiar nurse, Jirapon Karsemsak, who will soon return with them to Thailand...
...burghers of Kronach (pop. 10,000), in Bavaria. Except on Wednesday nights. Then the town's 70-year-old chess club takes over, and antlered deer heads brood silently from the walls. In recent years. Kronach's players got tired of each other's familiar tactics. West and away, across the Atlantic, they decided, there must be the kind of competition that would put the old spirit back into Kronach's club...
...more tragic that the goals of science are so little understood, that science is regarded as either in a mysterious category of its own or merely as a producer of bombs and security risks (having testified for his old friend J. Robert Oppenheimer, DuBridge is all too familiar with the trying ways of security). Apparently, says DuBridge, "it has become fashionable in some circles to say we have had 'too much science'; that 'science is the cause of most of the world's troubles' . . . You would think that the fate of the world rested...
That sign heralded a revolution of sorts in Kansas City, Mo. Ever since World War II, the city's colored population has been busting out of the downtown area recognized as the "Negro district." The pattern was familiar and explosive: panic sales by white residents, mass meetings, homemade bombs, a few fast-buck real-estate men cashing in on the white flight from Negro neighbors. Few liked to talk about it in public, but one Sunday Pastor Sturgess brought the subject out into the light. "Whether it be a matter of selling one's home or fleeing...
...measure of the artists' accuracy appears in University Hall's ivy which follows the pattern of the living vine. At the rear of the Hall, the Yard's lone pine tree stands among the familiar elms, oaks and maples. Both the positions and the species of the model's 2,500 trees were mapped by student workers...