Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change in Climate. Being neither a philosopher nor an economist, practical Harry Truman did not bother to characterize his program in philosophical terms. Actually, the State of the Union message, put together by Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford and polished by Sam Rosenman, old Roosevelt speech-polisher, was a familiar and almost dogged reiteration of virtually everything Harry Truman had been recommending for the past two years. Obviously what made everyone sit up and take notice of it this time was the fact that Harry Truman was putting it before a Democratic Congress which might very well give him a number...
...Self-Defense." Having stated his terms, and offered, for the record, to step down in the wildly improbable event that they were accepted, Chiang returned to a more familiar line: "I firmly believe," he insisted, "that the government will win out in the end . . . The people of the nation should realize that only by carrying on this war of self-defense can a real peace be secured...
Roaming through the familiar streets, she met an old boy friend generally known in the nickname-loving neighborhood as "The Chink." (Why he is called that, no one can say. When pressed for an explanation, a local bartender shrugged: "Why do they call me 'The Cheese...
...kids of America, the most familiar face in public life is the craggy jaw of Dick Tracy, identified by 97% of the moppets who were interviewed by the Ladies' Home Journal. Bing Crosby was spotted by 95%, while 93% recognized Harry Truman...
...diary kept during the winter of 1860-61, in Washington. The story of Douglas' behavior at Lincoln's inaugural (Lincoln had no place to lay his hat, fidgeted with it, until Douglas stepped forward and took it from him) is one of the many familiar stories that come from this famous diary. James Ford Rhodes, Carl Sandburg, Ida Tarbell and other Lincoln biographers accepted the book as genuine ; only the biographer of Charles Sumner doubted its authenticity...