Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grounds at Frenchman's Flat. On the desert below, the Army was supposed to have set up infantry positions, emplaced artillery, and deployed tanks. At 7:20, the 6-295 slid into formation and swept over the target. A blinding, dome-shaped flash lit up the sky; the familiar, mushroom-topped cloud shot up to 20,000 feet. Three hours later, a loo-mile-long radioactive cloud was still trailing across the horizon...
...rather, a dull ache brought on by years of seeming hopelessness and actual attrition. A new Churchillian call for blood, sweat, toil and tears might not now find the same response as it had before, but for the moment at least, there was reassurance in the old familiar, dogged smile beneath the square black hat. There was an encouraging echo of the good old days in the sight of Churchill making the V sign from his big, black Humber, the red, blue & gold flag of his honorary title, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, bravely flying from its fender...
Because many of the visiting students will not be familiar with the Open and Closed songs and cheers, a mimeographed sheet will be distributed at the rally...
...Difficult to Swallow." It would be a very hardened sinner who could read this love story without a pang of recognition, a momentary enlargement of the heart. But when, in the last 50 pages, the key changes from the familiar minor to an unfamiliar major-from the unmaking of a mistress to the making of a saint-even the warmest reader may feel his conviction cooling. For the machinery from which the rescuing God emerges is less the novelist's than the churchman...
...combination of Beethoven, Heifetz, and Charles Munch made the B.S.O.'s concert Saturday night one of its greatest triumphs. The three familiar works on the program received brilliant interpretations which brought out some of the hidden beauties usually overlooked in run-of-the-mill performances...