Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessity, built his first team around the nucleus of the past few years. The starting lineup in Saturday's home opener against Brandeis will feature faces familiar to Harvard fans, but only the players--not the style--will be recognizable...
...your very perceptive Essay, "The Difficult Art of Losing," you overlooked perhaps the sweetest sour grape ever uttered: On March 9, 1832, Abraham Lincoln said, "If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...
...phone with the President perhaps a dozen times. Last week, just six days after the election, Dick and Pat called on Lyndon and Lady Bird. The four lunched together. Then, as the hostess took her successor for a tour, the men went to work. Sitting in a familiar spot-the Cabinet Room's vice presidential seat-Nixon was briefed on major security problems by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and other ranking officials. After three hours and 50 minutes, Johnson and Nixon faced the press. It was Nixon who drew attention to the major risk of the transition period: paralysis...
...another four years the constitutional crisis that for generations has been inherent in the Electoral College system. Had none of the candidates gained the requisite 270-vote Electoral College majority, the nation would have drifted in dangerous uncertainty for weeks or even months. The possible scenario has become amply familiar. Wallace might have tried to barter his electors for concessions from one of the major candidates between Nov. 5 and Dec. 16, when the electors will cast their ballots. If he failed, the selection of the next President might have been thrown to the House of Representatives, where another deadlock...
...Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Goldman learned his ring tactics in the streets of South Brooklyn, fought Bantamweight Champion Johnny Coulon to a standoff in 1912. Two years later, Goldman turned to training, and his black derby and horn-rimmed glasses became a familiar fixture at big-time bouts. "Training a promising kid," he once said, "is like putting a quarter in one pocket and taking a dollar out of another...