Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...informal talk to men attending the 72nd conference of the National Guard Association. He asked their support in trying to get a universal military training law, called the nation's high rate of draft rejections "a disgrace to the richest nation in the world." Then striking a familiar note, he looked enviously at the decorations and campaign ribbons before...
...their more accomplished and eminently successful mentors, who have had and still have a vast continent in which to base their operations . .. Filipinos . . . are inefficient all right-even in their grafting . . . With more time and greater chances they will yet show they can equal or even surpass the stink familiar and now taken for granted in Washington...
Since then, U.S. students have become a good deal more familiar with "college boards." In the half century some 2,000,000 would-be collegians have suffered their way through the board's tests. By last week, when the College Entrance Examination Board celebrated its 50th anniversary and published its official history (The College Board: Its First Fifty^ Years, by Claude M. Fuess, Columbia University Press; $2.75), it had achieved an influence in U.S. education far greater than most Americans outside the teaching profession realized...
...thinking about tier," writes Author Farrell. Readers will wish that he had thought longer, or that a sharper writer had done his writing for him. For while Dream Girl is built around a pretentious theme, Author Farrell can muster only nine undercooked stories to support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during a race riot) shows the author at his Chicasro-street...
This year's ballot will contain some of the familiar questions upon which state residents have been voting for years. Number six would decide the legality of horse and dog racing. Seven includes three questions: the prohibition of hard liquor, wine and beer, and package store sales. This question affects only the voter's own community...