Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that this time is as important to the team as spring football used to be to the varsity eleven. The tennis mentor must not only get a line on his sophomore prospects, but he also has to teach the whole team new strokes and tacties with which to become familiar before meeting outside competition in the spring...
...busy for baseball, bloopered: "I wish I could hit like you." In his speech before a crowd of 75,000 at the state capitol, he briefly defended the Administration's record on China: echoing the State Department's 1949 White Paper on the subject, he presented the familiar argument that China's Nationalist regime could have been saved from the Communists only by sending U.S. soldiers to China...
...even create negative protons, which would be really sensational. Ordinary protons are positively charged. Combined with one or more negative electrons, they form the familiar atoms of ordinary matter. But scientists have already created positive electrons (positrons). This suggests that it may be possible to create negative protons (not yet named nega-tons). Combined with positrons, these should form "reversed matter." An atom of "anti-hydrogen," for instance, would have a negative proton as its nucleus, with a positron instead of an electron revolving around...
...motorists in most Eastern states, the orange tile roof of a Howard Johnson's restaurant is almost as familiar as a gas pump. The Johnson chain, which got its start near Boston 24 years ago, now stretches along highways from Maine to Florida, has outlets scattered all the way to Wisconsin. This year its 355 "stores" will serve 250 million customers and gross $150 million; they constitute the largest roadside restaurant chain in the world. But Founder Howard Johnson, a husky 54-year-old who spends as much time on the road as his best customers, is not satisfied...
...best of the lot: a description of "a plain without a feature," where masses of men march to the command of a dictator and nobody knows "Of any world where promises were kept/Or one could weep because another wept." But even this poem is all too predictable to anyone familiar with Auden's work. Still more predictable are Marianne Moore spinning fine verbal webs, Wallace Stevens in a suavely elegiac mood, E. E. Cummings broken out in lyrical wonder. As for the younger poets, most are earnestly prosy, weary beyond their years, and cautiously derivative...