Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like his earlier plays, The Dark echoes twih Inge's boyhood days: "I seem to return to the Midwest not only because I know it, but because I find the regional speech more lyrical and familiar. My mother, who was part Scot, part Irish, had lovely, melodic speech. I find myself going back to the melody of her voice and to others I remember. I've lived in New York for eight years, but so far, I've been afraid tackle the speech patterns of the city...
After agreement on new rules and trades, the baseballers sat down to talk some more, and the illusion of interleague cooperation collapsed. Everything fell apart into familiar argument when the minors got wind of a big-league deal for network television of Sunday games. Screaming that Sunday is their only payday, that their fans would desert them to watch big-league ball, minor-league leaders sent a hasty telegram to Representative Emanuel Celler. Its gist: please re-open congressional hearings on the majors' baseball monopoly...
...been a long time since grey Gotham saw a labor leader who actually punched a time-clock and went to work in a uniform. Abe Stark, Brooklyn's substitute for mayor, set the familiar monolith into action. The City of New York slapped an injunction on the Motormen, and threatened Theodore Loos with jail...
...summit meeting could counter and reverse the decline in Western prestige since Sputnik. In this time of anxiety, the West looked to the U.S. to provide a new sense of strength and resolution. The NATO allies would rather have it from Ike. whom they hold in admiration and familiar affection. But if Ike is incapacitated, they are quite ready to accept it from Nixon. The summit meeting would fail only if the U.S., whoever spoke for it, failed to provide that leadership...
Code & Flares. All such tricks and more have long been familiar to every military nation, and many cycles of subtlety have been built upon them. Modern radars change their frequencies quickly and also change the length and shape of the pulses they send out. This amounts to a sort of code that the enemy must break, and often he has no time to do it. If he is attacked by a radar-guided missile, he may have only a few seconds to mimic its voice and prompt it to swerve aside into empty...