Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy the Accuser. Next day, McCarthy was back in a more familiar role. Flourishing a pink-covered brief of "documentary evidence," he appeared before a Foreign Relations subcommittee to oppose the confirmation of Ambassador at Large Philip Jessup as a U.S. delegate to the U.N. General Assembly. His "documentary evidence" would prove his charge that Jessup "has a great affinity for Communist causes," said McCarthy...
...time to answer Connecticut's odd little mental midget who is used as a megaphone for the Communist party-line type of smear." Instead, he orated for more than an hour to the assembled Republicans. Many of them had opposed inviting him. But after hearing Joe reiterate his familiar charges and watching him flourish "documentation," the delegates stood and cheered. At meeting's end, the 17 state chairmen unanimously and formally pledged McCarthy their support as Joe hustled off for more speechifying at the annual dinner of Pennsylvania's V.F.W. in Harrisburg...
...more books people get used to it . . . While A King's Story is strictly nonfiction, I do believe that, as far as its last chapters are concerned, it is in a personal sense a romance . . . I only wish that I had thought to add the old familiar ending of all romances: 'And they lived happily ever after...
...years. At any rate, the people who lived near the loch did not think it worth reporting. Since most Scottish lochs, they believed, had water kelpies, why shouldn't Loch Ness have one? His Grace the Duke of Portland noted in 1885 that his ghillies were quite familiar with a "horrible great beastie" in Loch Ness...
Last week Mr. Cox was Starting his 70th year on the staff of the famed London Library. Though he has become a familiar figure among London's great and near-great, few know where he lives, or what he does after he pads out of the library each evening at closing time. But there is scarcely a scholar in London who has not at some time sought his advice. "His name," said the London Times last week, "is said to have come more often than that of any other man alive in the paragraphs of thanks in the prefaces...