Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bread. Most newsmen, sitting at planked tables beside and behind the rostrum, shared the disadvantage point that made Rebecca West "more familiar with the contours which members of the Republican Party present to the world behind them than in front" (the New York Herald Tribune headlined her piece: BRITISH OBSERVER Is IMPRESSED MOST BY STASSEN'S FOLLOWING...
...first volume of his history of the war is already partially familiar to everyone, just as his career and his abilities were partially familiar to Englishmen at the time he became Prime Minister. Much of this book has been serialized in LIFE and in the New York Times, and it moreover follows incidents in a career already exhaustively reported. It may seem inconceivable that there is more to learn about Churchill...
...Ambition. Plainly, Jim Duff was not a man to run from a fight. At 65, he is a friendly, outspoken six-footer with a rugged frame and electric blue-grey eyes that make him look 20 years younger. Since he moved to the Executive Mansion, he has become a familiar sight on Harrisburg streets-window-shopping, chatting with the local newsstand dealer, gassing with the cop on the corner...
...made the fans wait for what they had all come to hear. Not a pound under weight (at 190) in a shroudlike black gown, her swarthy features and shoe-button eyes gleaming in the spotlight, she teased them first with a couple of new ones - but in the familiar, sweetly sighing Bailey style. ("I couldn't sing big if I wanted to.") When they kept roaring for it, she finally gave them Rockin' Chair with a real tear glistening...
...native sons, familiar with local conditions, win most of the battles for position in the social order. They force the D.P.s in the rat colony to accept the least desirable territories, where they lead a marginal existence, exposed to hunger and enemies...