Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body of Moses Jones, a Negro, sprawled on the floor like "you would throw a dead hog." Stocky Sheriff Hill explained he had been forced to kill Jones, a prisoner who had "grabbed me and attempted to get my gun." There were no witnesses to confirm or refute the familiar story; there rarely...
During his years as Luxembourg's perennial spokesman abroad, Joseph Bech has been a familiar, white-maned figure in the councils of the world's great nations. It was not flattering to Europe's great powers, another diplomat once said, "that the most intelligent of her foreign ministers is the representative from Luxembourg." Bech himself, a practical conservative who deplores "plans drawn in the clouds," explains his success with a line from Tacitus, who once described a successful politician as a man neither above nor below the affairs he dealt with, but simply equal to them. "Political...
Through the dim and smoky atmosphere of the Manhattan jazz den called Birdland came some old and familiar piano tones. The holiday crowd quieted and the music took over, its tones pure and glassy, its melody suggested almost as much as stated, its long moments of silence as pregnant as the notes themselves. William "Count" Basie, the man who was as instrumental as Benny Goodman in popularizing swing, was back on the bandstand again, jumping high and handsome as ever...
...story about a British hill station in northern India has a familiar set of char acters: the new officer (Power), the commander's daughter (Terry Moore), and her father (Michael Rennie), who refuses consent-in this case because Ty is a half-caste. "Don't you mind when people behave the way they do?" pouts Actress Moore, an ingenue who seems continually worried by the complexity of her lines. "I mind, but I hope for the best. The world's still young," replies Actor Power, managing to look a little like Nehru and John Barrymore...
...obvious that Mr. Campbell is confusing social insurance with private insurance. Anyone who is familiar with the development of social insurance abroad and in this country is aware of the fact that the benefit rights under social insurance are always established by specific statutory provisions and are not dependent on an individual contract. Thus, we have had workmen's compensation in this country for more than 40 years. This is a well-recognized form of social insurance which provides benefits to injured workers as a statutory right, enforceable by law, and not dependent on any individual insurance contract whatsoever...