Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still a researcher's nightmare. Miss Peckham's firsthand knowledge of Europe helped considerably. She had made six trips to the Continent. She watched Hitler haranguing his followers as early as 1930; in 1937 and 1938 she observed the rebuilding of the German war machine. She was familiar with most of the major news centers. During the historic days that led to Munich, she was again in Germany, crossing to London in time to hear Prime Minister Chamberlain's famed "peace for our time" speech to the House of Commons. She also visited Latin America and Canada...
...found the path to it more smooth. Handsome, popular, effortlessly brilliant, Alger Hiss had been a Harvard protégé of Felix Frankfurter, secretary to the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Among the New Deal's bright young men, he rose steadily. Soon he became a familiar figure at high councils of state, sitting just behind the men at the green-topped tables of power. As secretary general of the San Francisco Conference, he was shown in the news pictures between Russia's Molotov and the U.S.'s Stettinius; at Yalta, he sat at Franklin...
...active battleship in the U.S. Navy-steamed out of Norfolk last week headed for Caribbean maneuvers. For lean, strong-jawed Captain W. D. Brown, it was the first trip since he took command last December. Just past Old Point Comfort, the Mighty Mo swung to the north of the familiar channel to run a new acoustic range. The Mighty Mo never swung back. With the sickening sensation that only a sailor can know, Captain Brown felt his ship touch bottom. Slowly, majestically, the 57,600 tons of the Mighty Mo slid on and on, and then stopped, her waterline...
Brisk flurries of hand clapping had followed Mr. Sawyer across the country. The scene was becoming familiar: Secretary Sawyer, leaning backwards, speaking reassuringly-waving a green light for U.S. business...
...sensational end. For years the principal attraction of the Charlie Rebernigg Circus on the square behind Vienna's baroque Ehrlskirche had been a tough, smart, amiable elephant named Bubi. His broad, hospitable back was a favorite riding place for scores of Viennese tots. His sauntering shuffle was a familiar sight on the city's streets. Last fortnight, Bubi became suddenly irritable and turned on his trainer. All Vienna said that that was what came of keeping a male elephant virginal for 28 years. When Bubi was shot by order of Circus Owner Rebernigg, all Vienna mourned...