Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he was true to the red, white & blue. There had, he said right off, been a lot of hooey about seizure of the press & radio. The thought of seizing them had never occurred to him, and he couldn't imagine it happening. Then, stepping into his familiar role as a history tutor, Harry Truman undertook to lecture the newsmen once again on some facts of world affairs...
...York's 20th District. As Harriman's manager, he has the powerful Harry Truman-Adlai Stevenson wing of the party solidly behind his candidate. He was airily confident last week that Harriman will be a shoo-in for the nomination by convention time. Said he, flashing the familiar family smile: "I've never been in on a losing political race yet, and I don't expect to be this time...
...West Point (class of '17), Ridgway has served peacetime stints in China, Nicaragua, the Panama Canal Zone, the Philippines, Brazil, the Caribbean Command area, and at the United Nations. No stranger to Europe, he led 82nd Airborne paratroopers in World War II and there picked up his familiar hallmark-a grenade hung ready for throwing, on his combat harness. In the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, he served under Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery, who will now be his deputy commander at SHAPE. Monty says he is "delighted" to serve under Ridgway...
...visitors boast Dick Squires, a member of last year's champion intercollegiate doubles team, at number one; he will face a familiar squash and tennis opponent in Captain Charlie Ufford. The Crimson star defeated Squires in the winter sport but enters this afternoon's match a slight underdog...
Conventionality and custom triumph, however, where golfing clothes are concerned. The ever familiar shirtwaist, the tallored skirt, will appear regularly on the greens because the smartness and freedom of movement allowed in its styling have yet to be improved upon...