Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charm of a familiar tune or the lure of a new melody will draw summer the atergoers to barns, tents and playhouses this week...
...There it is!" rose from the aircraft carrier's huge flight deck. For a split second, a tiny orange speck, no brighter than a faint shooting star, shone against the thick, purplish clouds. Apollo 11 had come home; now it was streaking through the earth's familiar atmosphere after completing the most momentous journey in man's history. Two of the three human beings aboard the returning spacecraft had actually landed on the moon, strode effortlessly across its tortured surface and brought a few chunks of lunar rock home with them...
...typical autobiographical Babel childhood story, the reader slips into the author's atmosphere of old Odessa as if it were a familiar coat. Within a framework of shop-lined streets, savory meals and sturdy furnishings, the young narrator casually spins the tale of his grandmother, an embittered illiterate who urges her grandson to study hard and learn everything. To her, knowledge is not an instrument of discovery but a weapon of revenge that will bring the world to its knees...
...almost 300 drugs, are not effective for any of the uses suggested by the manufacturers in their advertising. Others are effective only for certain suggested uses. Since efficacy must be established beyond reasonable doubt under the 1962 law, the result of these findings will be to sweep scores of familiar products from druggists' shelves. Hundreds of others will have to be relabeled, with fewer, less provocative and appealing claims...
...fear of violating a social code. Husbands and wives can literally beat each other to death before most outsiders will step in; recent studies of the estimated more than 30,000 "battered children" injured by parental abuse every year indicate that as many as 4,000,000 people were familiar with at least one such case of family violence and that most of them did nothing...