Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plotting a "revolution of the right." Appearing in a 30-minute statewide telecast, well tanned and decked out in a red-white-and-blue necktie, Republican Challenger Reagan charged that Brown had been "taken over by militant left-wing radicals." Thus, though the argy-bargy already sounded as familiar to most voters as a come-on-over radio commercial, the rivals last week wordily marked the formal opening of California's gubernatorial campaign...
...Familiar Approach. In the press gallery above, Political Columnist Stanley Uys of the Johannesburg Sunday Times watched the messenger elbow his way through milling Assemblymen and approach Verwoerd. "I thought he was going to pat Dr. Verwoerd on the back," said Uys. "I thought he was being excessively familiar. Then I saw the knife...
...every university administrator endorses the cluster idea. Purdue Vice President Paul Chenea contends that no matter what the size of a school, a student tends to become familiar with only half a dozen teachers and a score of students. Others argue that the diversity of relationships at a big university is one of its glories, not handicaps. "Most students will not go out into the world and settle in small towns," says U.C.L.A. Dean Franklin P. Rolfe. "They will head for the megalopolis. The big university represents civilization...
Only if there were some interaction between the two universes might it be possible to detect a Faustian galaxy, which would absorb energy instead of radiating it in familiar galactic fashion. The search for such a galaxy, Stannard suggests, could be made by a telescope equipped with a sensitive thermal device. If the device suddenly began radiating heat, the telescope almost certainly would be pinpointing a heat-absorbing Faustian galaxy, otherwise invisible because it would also be absorbing rather than emitting light...
Outside of Edinburgh, where it has its headquarters, Distillers Co. Ltd. is hardly a household name. Yet on its own and through a large family of subsidiaries, the company produces more than half the Scotch sold round the world, and its bottles carry most familiar labels: among them Johnnie Walker, Haig, Dewar's, Vat 69, White Horse and Black & White. The company also dips in a big way into gins and vodkas -producing, among others, Gordon's and Booth...