Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decline has been moderate," insisted Harry Truman. So far there had been no speculators' spree, no sudden upsurge of personal debt, none of the familiar warning signals of an economic smashup. But in this "transition period," he admitted, there was no longer any point to the whole kit & caboodle of anti-inflation controls which he had been demanding. Nor was there, he acknowledged, any longer a possibility of the $4 billion tax increase he had asked for last January...
Last week, Morgan was on the air at a new time with a new sponsor, Bristol-Myers (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T., NBC). The ingredients were familiar: Morgan burlesquing high-flown documentaries; Morgan being badgered by bustling stooges. Biggest surprise was Morgan's respectful treatment of his sponsor and his super-generous mention (96 times) of the sponsor's name and products. As a reformed bad boy, Morgan is not necessarily funnier than before, but he might last longer...
...summed up his position with a familiar Moscow precept, dressed in a Chinese figure of speech: "You have to choose between the alternatives of killing the tiger or being eaten...
Charles Meryon is not a familiar name in art, but it stands for some of the most highly prized etchings ever made. A wizened little man with a black beard and distrustful eye, Meryon 100 years ago set himself the task of putting the people and particularly the architecture of Paris onto copper. A few clear-seeing critics, including Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire, praised him to the skies. Meryon brushed aside the praise. He was a perfectionist and he brought no more than a dozen of his meticulously etched plates to the standard that he demanded of himself...
...movie exhibitors were fed up with playing the villain's role. For years, and as recently as LIFE'S Round Table on the movies (TIME, June 27), they had heard familiar squawks from Hollywood: theater owners take most of the film industry's profits, run the fewest risks and keep its output down to mediocre level by calling the turn for the moviemakers...