Word: familiarization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Africa hands are painfully familiar with the phenomenon known as "Wawa." It stands for West Africa Wins Again, and summarizes the frustrating inability to mesh modern methods and ancient habits. Wawa crops up at cable offices, where either the Telex or the telegrapher are inevitably out. It turns up at the airport, where engines, customs officials or both are missing just when someone is desperately in need of a flight. Wawa hovers miasmatically in hotel rooms, turning a once placid shower into a veritable Victoria Falls, or switches telephone calls from one trunk line to another. Africa is progressing...
...Though it is familiar as "the heaves" or "broken wind" in horses. Emphysema comes from a Greek word meaning to puff up or inflate...
...room, flat on his back, swathed in surgical drapes, holding up a borrowed cornet with his free right hand as he launched, predictably, into St. Louis Blues. Next came a more or less reverent When the Saints Go Marching In, and then a throbbing medley of old familiar blues...
...grisly crime, public outrage, pressured police. In Manhattan, the familiar pattern swirled about the twin murder of Newsweek Researcher Janice Wylie, 21, and Schoolteacher Emily Hoffert, 23. Yet last week the old pattern had a new result: a rare official admission of a near-miscarriage of justice...
Bertha E. Cohen 67, Cambridge property-owner familiar to many Harvard students living off-campus, died Monday in her Memorial Drive apartment. She leaves a fortune estimated at over $20 million...