Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Murkier Waters. Though Johnson likes domestic politics best, there were times during the year when he found himself totally immersed in the less familiar and murkier waters of foreign policy. Less than two months after he took over, he had to cope with rioting in Panama over U.S. management of the Canal Zone, and in the weeks
Each school must match the payment within three years-by raising $2 for every $1 of philanthropy in the case of Brown and $3 for every $1 in the case of richer U.S.C. and Brandeis. The rules were familiar. The trio had played the match game before, thus joining a select circle of two-time Ford grant winners...
...Familiar Tale. To a certain point, the election went as planned. Jagan piled up only 45.8% of the vote; Burnham won 40.5% and stood ready to form a coalition with the third-running United Force Party (12%), headed by Portuguese Businessman Peter d'Aguiar. But then Cheddi simply refused to resign. "The election was fraudulent," he announced. "The British government will have to force me out." Unimpressed, the governor formally appointed Burnham Prime Minister...
...familiar tale. Jagan, a dentist turned demagogue, founded the P.P.P. in 1950 with his Chicago-born, sometime-Communist wife Janet, and won the colony's first general elections in 1953. Jagan's intemperate demands for independence and deliberately incited sugar strikes forced the British to boot him out after five months. Ever since his return to power three years ago, Jagan has gone out of his way to foment racial passions. When last week's elections were announced in October 1963, his answer was to send his sugar workers out on a savage strike that lasted...
After a promising beginning, Father Goose hits the shoals and settles down as a slick but superficial imitation of The African Queen. Its darling juveniles strain their precocity to freshen up the familiar fireworks between a proper young lady and an improper gent. The war itself looks like one of the livelier attractions at Disneyland. Grant and Caron endure pretty little hardships, finally try to get married by a chaplain over short-wave radio during a Japanese strafing attack...