Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...points. From SAC's Thule Air Base in Greenland, cover planes flew across the earth's top to circle Ice Skate and keep in touch lest the camp homer beacon fail. At Harmon A.F.B. in Newfoundland, SAC put on standby two crack C-123J crews who were familiar with ice landings. This time, instead of landing on a 10,000-ft.-to-20,000-ft airstrip, a single rescue plane had to make a dark-of-night touchdown on a Band-Aid-sized, 2,200-ft. strip while an escorting C-54 circled the area...
...noticeable vagueness is there on purpose, since a great organizational structure would freeze the group and hamper the project's flexibility. The group needs a paid manager, however, to maintain regular channels among the schools, the University, and the officers. The HUT backers are looking for someone familiar with "school politics" who would act as liason between schools' needs and the academic and social obligations of undergraduates. If the HUT can find a student interested in this sort of work, they hope to expand to 30 students by next year. But even without a paid manager, the group continues...
Usually, the AMP knows a great deal about one area and little about the others, and in order to be promoted he must be familiar with all. "I lean toward production," said...
...without enthusiasm. Strauss has silenced those Germans who yelled "Bellhops" at his parading recruits by junking their first U.S.-style uniforms, with Eisenhower jackets and laced shoes, and presenting his countrymen with the sight of soldiers in tightly belted tunics and clumping leather boots and officers in the old familiar Wehrmacht-style high-peaked caps...
...hand at departmental politics, but he was also a great scholar. About to die, Greg decided to play a splendid little joke on the "academic community." The story, which carries a subtle overtone of Shavian irony, took place at a fictional university, but the characters are familiar: the smooth and politic department chairman, the impressive "Great Ideas" lecturer with little scholarship in his background, the pale, imitative young instructor. Perhaps the tale is not entirely uninteresting to officers and students of Harvard University...