Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penn has always played host to the Crimson during the Southern trip, so today's game will be the first meeting of the two clubs here. With its potent attack, a partisan crowd, and a familiar field, and with Penn doing the travelling, the Crimson gets...
...familiar with the sharply angled turns where a miscue can send car and driver hurtling into trees. He knows the delicate little jog at Maison Blanche, almost midway in the long (2.7 mile) northwest straightaway-where the drivers are at flat-out top speed and where British-born Driver Tommy Cole spun out and was killed last year. "I was following right behind him," said Cunningham. "I saw a yellow flag and jammed on the brakes, and saw him lying on the road and his car rammed up against the gully. You have to concentrate like the devil...
...goggle and duster days, when the U.S. had such a road tradition, when half a million New Yorkers jammed out to watch the Vanderbilt Cup races on Long Island. In the Vanderbilt were such car names, now dim, as Pope-Toledo, Darracq, Simplex and Locomobile, such still familiar ones as Mercedes and Fiat. The driver lists included such U.S. professionals as Barney Oldfield, Ralph de Palma, such millionaire amateurs as William K. Vanderbilt himself and Spencer Wishart, such Europeans as Jenatzy, first man to exceed 60 m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language...
...ordinary citizen will hardly be familiar with zarfs (cuplike stands for small coffee cups), yauds (work horses) or vugs (small rock cavities), and he may also be surprised to learn that a varus man is bowlegged, that an od is a theoretical force, that a peri is a type...
...that the East borrows from the West. At Luang Nakon's leading cabaret, the local version of the Radio City Rockettes wear drum-majorette boots, hussars' hats and nothing else. At the town's boxing matches, the style if not the wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored lights and boogie-woogie records arrives in Luang Nakon's brothel and the girls take to nylon blouses imprinted with headlines from a New York tabloid (GIN-CRAZED, SLAYS THREE), it becomes clear that...