Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eventually, persistent oxygen starvation can cause gangrene; fingers or toes may have to be amputated. One familiar treatment, an operation to cut nerve trunks and thus inactivate the nerves that control the stretching and shrinking of small arteries, is a painful failure in a majority of cases...
...long century since Raynaud's disease was described by the French physician for whom it is named, the medical profession has learned little about either its cause or any possible cure. Its symptoms remain naggingly familiar. The victim is usually a ma ture woman, who first notices the trou ble in her 20s. The slightest chill can slow her peripheral circulation until her hands, feet, the tip of her nose and the edges of her ears turn blue and ache excruciatingly from oxygen shortage...
...begin exchanging streams of charged droplets. When two of these counter-flowing streams-which move as fast as 500 m.p.h.-are within a quarter to half a mile of each other, the droplets act as an electrostatic motor rotor. As they whirl, they whip the surrounding air into the familiar and dreaded funnel...
...intimate terms with its status-conscious readers by publishing a column called Le Carnet du Jour, a listing of all the births, marriages and deaths of those who count in French society. "You're not really married if it hasn't been noted in Figaro," is a familiar quip. A 37-year-old boulevardier and gossip columnist named Philippe Bouvard cruises Paris in a Citroen equipped with television and a telephone. As he picks up tips, he phones any of 15 legmen and women to follow them up. "Before, only a name was enough," says Bouvard...
...region's 16 contests for Governor and the U.S. Senate, satisfied voters returned old familiar faces - or reasonable facsimiles - to old familiar jobs. And both parties pretty well held their...