Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolteacher, 49-year-old Owen Lattimore grew up in China. He roamed the high, bitter steppes and the burning deserts of Asia's hinterlands, became the familiar of Uzbek traders and Mongolian camel herders, and his honeymoon was a trek by camel, sled and shaggy pony through Chinese Turkestan...
...Familiar Words. In their garage apartment, Jackin and Prowska heard over & over again on the radio the strange name Gubichev, and the familiar words Moscow, Stalin and Russia...
...became infuriated at the red tape which entangled him when he wanted to draw on his letter of credit. To cut the tape, he designed the now familiar American Express travelers' cheques. They now comprise the bulk of the company's billion-dollar business, and have become standard exchange in every corner of the world. (So valued are they, in fact, that last year a ring started to counterfeit $1,000,000 of them-and was nabbed.) As the demand for travelers' cheques grew, American. Express had to expand its services abroad (it sold its domestic freight...
Entering the cage we looked around and happened to notice Hal Moffie, a well-known outfielder working out around second. Captain John Caulfield, a familiar sight to baseball fans in right field, was playing in a little close. In fact he was holding down first as the ball was pegged around the infield. Cliff Crosby, minus the pads, and mask was using a five fingered glove in a pepper game. "He's been playing third," someone told...
There were some familiar faces--Captain Phil Isenberg, Dike Hyde, Paul O'Brien, Jerry Kanter, Carroll Lowenstein, Hill Rosenau, Duke Sedgwick, Henry Dunker, and Don Kaplan. Also present was a large number of freshman and junior varsity players. Some men who were expected, like Fred Ravreby, were unable to take part in the workout because of hour exams...