Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cannibals & Curry. For 66-year-old Eric de Bisschop, skipper of the raft Tahiti Nui II, it was a familiar gamble. All his days he had given odds to death and won. Born near the French seaport of Calais, the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, De Bisschop at 14 ran away from a Jesuit seminary, signed 'on as cabin boy on a sailing ship that beat its way around Cape Horn...
...weeks over The World of Giants, a projected series about a man shrunk to 6-in. size by an accidental burst of radiation. Loudly sung but unsold WOG died before its tiny hero saw an electronic screen. Only fantastic now left on the CBS books: H. G. Wells s familiar old Invisible...
...share earlier this year, Artloom has soared to a high of $27.63, even though Artloom's business has been as threadbare as a boardinghouse hall carpet. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission lifted the rug to see what went on, found an old familiar face in an old familiar pattern of action...
...President of the U.S. was plainly worn. After weeks of burning crisis in the Middle East, the Far East was warming up, and old familiar crisis words-Que-moy, Matsu-were in the headlines. At home, the drive to give Negroes their lawful rights in public schools needed only a spark to start fire. Dwight Eisenhower, wearied by months of foreign policy, domestic economy, legislative and legal problems, was not at his best...
Rearing up over the low-lying Tokyo skyline last week was a new steel contraption that to Westerners had a familiar shape. Called the Tokyo TV Tower, it looks like Paris' famed Eiffel Tower, and when a 250-ft. antenna is added to it this fall, it will rise 1,082 ft. above Japan's capital and Tokyo Bay, beating the Eiffel Tower by 65 ft. Designed by Aerodynamics Expert Isamu Kamei to withstand 210-m.p.h. winds at its top and an earthquake twice as violent as the one that leveled Tokyo...