Word: familiarization
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Ordinary hazards of driving are compounded in New Jersey, where meteorology, topography and industrial air pollution often produce dense fogs that suddenly blot out the road ahead. Fog is so familiar a problem in some sections of the state that permanent electric signs have been erected along the New Jersey Turnpike to flash warnings of fog and to cut speed limits. But New Jersey motorists may soon have a clearer view. By borrowing a discovery used to produce water in Chile, state transportation officials hope to be able to sweep long stretches of highway clear...
Died. John Big Tree, 90, a chief of the Seneca Indian tribe, whose craggy profile became familiar to every American when Sculptor James Earle Fraser used it as a model for the "heads" side of the 1913 Buffalo nickel; after a brief illness; near Syracuse...
...practicing this flexibility of form for some years. But now, with the sanction of the Confession encouraging imaginative use of time and resource, there will be more congregations without church buildings and ministries without congregations. The proper movement within a Christian's life, according to the Confession, is the familiar one of gathering and scattering...
Much of the difficulty with the new system will probably disappear once drivers have a chance to become familiar with the changes. The situation also may be improved when the second half of the new plan goes into effect in two to three weeks. Drivers heading south on Mass. Ave, are now able to go straight into the Square, but soon they will be forced to leave Mass. Ave, at Waterhouse Street and turn down Garden Street...
Amid the cacophony of attacks and recriminations emanating from hundreds of critics who oppose the Vietnam war, John Kenneth Galbraith's recent address to the National Citizens Committee to End the War in Vietnam stands out for its remarkable cogency and impact. Even when covering familiar ground Galbraith managed to achieve a level of sophistication and insight that few of the other critics have reached...