Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faces are the calmly arrogant, anonymous faces Hitchcock always found for his sinister antagonists. Looking at them, as they stand casually in the restless sunlight before the familiar white clapboards of an ordinary house in a peaceful city, you are suddenly chilled beyond belief. You realize, swiftly, that they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly...
...Christianity with which America is familiar is distorted, confused, and almost absurd." This sweeping charge is based on a study of 50 examination papers from a college sophomore class. Author of the study is the teacher of the class, writing anonymously in the current bi-monthly Religious Education. Almost all the students, says he, came from religious homes, had regularly attended Sunday school, and had just completed a semester's survey of religion which included five weeks of Bible study...
...compared with 86% of U.S. adults who have heard of the Marshall Plan (according to a current Roper Survey), the international survey found the following numbers familiar with the plan abroad: France, 90%; Sweden, 85%; Britain and Switzerland, 80%; Italy, 74%; U.S. Zone of Germany...
Much of the world's best land has been so badly treated that its productivity is falling steadily. Osborn retells the familiar tale of "soil-mining," deforestation and erosion all over the world. As people grow more numerous, the soil they depend on grows poorer & poorer. The low point has almost been reached in the Near East, where man-made deserts occupy large areas that were once fertile and populous. Like most conservationists, Osborn is something of an alarmist. He tends to underestimate the ability of modern agricultural science to revive maltreated soil, make deserts productive by irrigation...
Something new had been turned up in the grey market in steel. It was the tie-in sale, once familiar to buyers of liquor, steaks and nylons. Last week a special House subcommittee heard two prime examples of how the tie-in works...