Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from there spoke many kind words about the sociological success of Joseph Stalin & Co. She went on to Washington as ambassador and there, as in Moscow, maintained what she called "a certain aloofness" toward the cold war. Her soft-colored saris and blue-tinted grey hair gradually grew as familiar at diplomatic conclaves as the male diplomat's dark suit and black Homburg. In 1952 she returned to India and ran for Parliament, was overwhelmingly elected...
...joined the royal family at Balmoral Castle to celebrate his 45th wedding anniversary with Lady Churchill. The London News Chronicle, viewing all this activity with approval, commented: "Now that he is back in the news, life as the inhabitants of Britain have come to know it assumes a more familiar and more comforting pattern. For what Wellington said of Napoleon is just as true of Sir Winston Churchill. His presence in the field is equal...
Large Print. Manhattan's Mutual Life Insurance Co. last week estimated that it was saving $250,000 a year through a policy of simplifying its paperwork. It began by translating the legal gobbledygook familiar to most policies into English the average person could understand, eliminating most of the "fine print" which has been the butt of many insurance jokes. When a farmer complained of the time he had lost getting a Mutual form notarized, the company discovered that it was needlessly having 75 different forms notarized, junked that policy too, and is saving policyholders $80,000 a year...
...Charles Brandon, Richard Todd is equally adept at gathering a nosegay for the princess, writing her a sonnet, and fighting off the evil duke and his henchmen. Portly James Robertson Justice plays a younger and more forceful Henry VIII than the one Charles Laughton has made familiar to moviegoers. As Mary Tudor, elfin-faced Glynis Johns, with her wryly insinuating voice, gives a winning characterization of a conniving little royal baggage...
...orchestra with oboe solo by Mitch Miller; Columbia, also Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra with musette-accordion solo by Henri Rene; Victor). One of those bittersweet tunes from a French movie (Violettes Imperiales), on which both companies lavished top performers. The Columbia version has Miller's familiar buttery oboe tone; Victor presents Winterhalter in one of his loud moods, with plenty of braying horns...