Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five civilians, along with a detail from the 100-man battery, had already converted three Nikes that day: so routine was their operation that the no-danger yellow light glowed on the battery control panel. The team started its fourth and final conversion shortly after 1 p.m.-began a familiar process in which it removed a warhead, took off the old trigger and its brackets, replaced them with a new trigger and brackets. Somewhere in that process on the fourth missile there was a mishap. Suddenly the missile blew with a roar and a sky-searing pillow of orange flame...
...fortnight, later, unconcerned in old shoes and an odd jacket, Vag announced himself to the Parker House receptionist. When he arrived upstairs at the Scott-Hanbury suite, a somber man with an ingrown chin asked him to be seated in the entrance hall. Vag was not alone. Two familiar Cambridge faces, supported by matching neckties, were talking nearby...
...fold significance," Mr. Pusey said. "It provides substantial funds to reinforce the national effort in basic scientific research and teaching at a time when this is badly needd, and it also recognizes a new principle in educational philanthropy--that sizable funds for capital, as well as the more familiar short-term grants for specific purposes, must be made available to our colleges if they are to continue responding effectively to the demands of our society...
Honorary degrees, of course, are awarded according to a system with which any gambling-minded contest entrant should be familiar. There are various categories of achievement which must be recognized at every Harvard Commencement--politics, religion, the arts, education, and what...
Despite such bows to Soviet realism in the Moscow Theater's first new Orchard since 1947, the production came to London with the blessing of Chekhov's Actress-Widow Olga Knipper Chekhova. Moreover, Londoners, to whom Chekhov is as familiar as Shaw or Sheridan, seemed to approve. The first-night audiences -including such personages as Defense Minister Duncan Sandys and Lady Churchill -gave the group nine curtain calls. And one sack-clad miss added the awed, ultimate compliment: "You don't need to speak Russian to understand...