Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar with all of these," said Senator Brewster briskly, "but I have the records of this $10,000 item . . . which is covered by my check of May 8, 1950, I believe." His explanation: as chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee in 1950, he thought it advisable to help out California's Richard Nixon and North Dakota's Milton Young in their primary campaigns. Under campaign rules, Brewster was not allowed to spend the committee's money in primaries to help one Republican against another, but he felt that these were exceptional cases and he personally borrowed...
...face was familiar to Capp but the name escaped him. When Fosdick's bride first turned up in the strip several years ago her name was Bess Backache...
Furthermore, the layman's insistence on singing and hearing the familiar in church made it difficult for choirmasters to avoid "dull repetitions of old, shoddy, mediocre hymns...
...best church music, Davison finds that the technical elements which make a "sacred" style include an irregular rhythmic structure which fulfills the texts, rather than a distracting, strongly-accented, steadily-beaten pulse. He thinks music written in modes other than the familiar major and minor scales is effective in producng an other-worldly, non-secular atmosphere...
...only hitch to studying in Europe, except in the English-speaking American Academy and the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, is that one must be familiar enough with the language to understand the lectures...