Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coral atolls as fascinating as detective stories. The clues lie strung through the earth's warm seas in festoons of ringlike islands, like Wake Island in the Pacific (see cut). And for more than a century the geologists have been debating what the clues really mean. The most familiar theory is that atolls started as coral reefs fringing a small island. When the island sank (or the sea rose), the ring of coral kept growing upward, eventually forming an atoll with a lagoon where the island used...
...city, there was cloying uncertainty beneath a merciless summer sun. The familiar guns booming at twilight, the usual outpost skirmishes conveyed new menace to Hanoi's 300,000 people and the 100,000 refugees who poured in around them. About 20,000 Vietnamese have already left for Saigon, and 120 fly out every day (Air Viet Nam space is filled up for all July). Refugees from fallen Namdinh crowded aboard buses for Haiphong in the second phase of their exodus...
Racing barefoot over sharp stones, he escaped into the night. At dawn he saw familiar Mt. Stougara, and knew that the Greek border was only a short distance away. He skirted an Albanian outpost, and an hour later met a Greek army patrol...
Teresa was God's familiar. She often spoke...
...There was something frighteningly familiar about the evacuation: the crowded, reeking buses, the pushcarts piled high with household goods, the silent rows of shuttered shop fronts waiting for the first Communist soldiers to appear. Namdinh brought to mind hundreds of other cities in China during 1948 and '49, in Korea during...