Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan living room one day last week, an eight-year-old boy, his eye on the clock, said: "Mummy, I want to see Howdy Doody." Obediently his mother went to the television set. As the screen flickered to life, the face that appeared was not the familiar, freckled countenance of the famous TV puppet, but the cold, clean-cut face of a man talking Russian. Said the little boy, in a voice foreboding tears: "I want to see Howdy Doody...
...most part, the Defense Department preferred not to discuss the orders it was placing, but some familiar names popped up in the news. Manhattan Dressmaker Henry Rosenfeld, who made uniforms for World War II Marine women, last week got an order for 244,000 summer uniforms for women reserves called to active duty. Nesco, Inc., maker of the five-gallon gasoline "blitz cans" familiar to U.S. soldiers the world over, prepared to turn out 150,000 a month on the later of two contracts totaling $1,700,000. The Switlik Parachute Co. had been told to double its plant facilities...
...marines proved they had plenty of guts. They held their ground until, in November, the resurgent Navy under "Bull" Halsey finally drove the Jap warships out of the area and put 2nd Marine Division and Army reinforcements ashore. Among Americans, Guadalcanal has become a household word, as familiar as Bunker Hill and Gettysburg...
...Long familiar to ordnance men, the shaped charge* is a mass of high explosive with a conical cavity in its front end; the cavity is lined with a cone of thin metal. When the charge explodes, the wave of detonation starts at the rear of the shell; when the explosive waves hit the point of the metal liner, the metal comes under immense pressure and acts like a thin fluid. Like a jet-propelled stream of toothpaste, the fluid metal spurts forward, at speeds up to 30,000 feet a second. The jet of liquid metal and gas can pierce...
...critical reputation. During World War II, the Minute Man adorned millions of U.S. stamps and war bond posters. Later French sculptures, like the John Harvard who sits pondering his philanthropy in Harvard Yard and the Lincoln of Washington's Lincoln Memorial, had long since become as familiar to Americans' as Longfellow's Hiawatha...