Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonderful time typecasting members of Congress. In both houses it would be easy to spot such specimens as the mournful mastiff, the excitable spitz, the busy dachshund with his close-set lawyer's eyes, the bloodhound with his air of sad preoccupation. Furthermore, there is an engaging and familiar quality about the aimless circling, the friendly tail-wagging, the snoozing and occasional fang-baring which take place on the floor...
Elusive Materials. In designing nuclear reactors, Hafstad said, the scientist cannot depend on familiar, well-behaved materials. Most of them are useless. They absorb too many neutrons (and so slow down the reaction) or they are quickly damaged by corrosion, heat or radiation. The AEC is building a special reactor to test the performance of various materials for piping, shielding, etc. Until it has been in operation for some time, reactor designers will not know for certain what materials they dare...
...fraud?' That is a question which is going to mean more and more to you year by year. At first, it seems agonizing; after that, it becomes familiar and habitual. Much later, it becomes . . . almost hopeful . . . You have to keep on tranquil good terms with this question, not forget it, not let it get into the unconscious . . . The more experience you have with people you're trying to teach, the more evident it will be that it's impossible to teach them . . . The best things that any elderly teacher can ever claim to have said...
...Lonely Place (Columbia) is a Humphrey Bogart melodrama that seems to take forever getting to the point and just about as long driving it home. While marking time, it offers some trite glimpses of life in Hollywood after hours and the over-familiar love story of a hero-heel (Bogart) and a good-bad girl (Gloria Grahame...
...housewives were downtown. Over on the river front, a gang of longshoremen worked late. From twelve railroad cars they were unloading a deadly cargo: anti-tank and anti-personnel mines for Pakistan's army, 2,000 cases of dynamite for blasting in Afghanistan. It was a tough but familiar job to the dockers. From the cars they moved the cases across the dock to four lighters, stowed them in neat, harmless-looking piles. When the job was done, the cargo would be ferried out to a freighter...