Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar figure around Washington courtrooms these days: Earl Browder 59, former head of the U.S. Communist Party. Out on bail awaiting a contempt of Congress trial, at which he has announced he will be his own defense attorney, Browder is currently busy boning up on courtroom dialectic...
...company paid Mrs. Walker a fast $239 in damages. Since medical expenses took up more than half this amount, it seemed a trifling settlement for so serious an injury. But when the Southwest Index Bureau later began to make a routine check of the claim, it found something hauntingly familiar about Mrs. Walker and her injury...
...story, as Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan put it together this week, had a grimly familiar sound. Gambler Sollazzo, said Hogan, struck up an acquaintance with L.I.U.'s Ed Gard at a Catskill resort hotel last summer, entertained him "extensively." Then he put up his proposition: How about lining up some basketball friends of his, picking up some big, easy money by making games come out right for Gambler Sollazzo? Ed Gard agreed. So, when it was put up to them in turn, did Roth, Roman and Warner of C.C.N.Y. Schaff of N.Y.U. was willing, but, said Hogan...
...police court for booking, the players seemed shamed and remorseful. That part of the story was grimly familiar, too. Said Prosecutor Hogan, whose men had been working on the case for seven weeks: "I fervently wish that any person who might be so tempted could have seen these stupid and dishonest young men as they admitted their guilt. Tears, remorse, self-reproach and scalding thoughts of the perpetual heartache and disgrace ... all of this was too late...
...competitions for Radcliffe correspondents and Radcliffe's business representatives are training programs which last a maximum of eight weeks. Correspondents will learn the fundamentals of news writing, interviewing, news evaluation, and will become familiar with the rudiments of newspaper production...