Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jake blasted it straight down the middle. Usually, Kramer won his service in jig time, and then began a long drawn-out battle to crack his opponent's serve. In Memphis last week, a woman spectator began berating Riggs for his ineptness. He waddled toward her with his familiar sailor's roll, racket outstretched handle first, as if to say: "If you think you can beat him, you try it." Kramer beat Riggs, 6-3, 6-4. The score in matches, at week's end: Kramer 39, Riggs...
People who regard science with suspicion have always celebrated such familiar, explainable events as "mysteries" or "miracles." Charles Fort, who died in 1932, made a career of it. For 26 years Fort puttered in the British Museum and the New York Public Library, collecting phenomena which "science cannot explain" (he had a special fondness for unusual objects falling from the sky). He insisted that the earth was surrounded by a gelatinous shell, in which the stars were holes. Rains of fish, frogs and "blood" (water containing reddish dust particles) were brought down to earth from the shell by "teleportation...
...Mourning Becomes Electra" can hardly claim to be entertainment. It can be compared neither to the Hitchcock thriller that also mixes psychology and murder, nor to the "good" European film, also dramatic--but on purely human, and therefore familiar, terms. "Electra" is all O'Neill--deeply emotional, sonorous, and occasionally pretentious. Much of the picture consists of agitated, often repetitive talk, and even the general excellence of the acting cannot always keep the audience fascinated by the tortured characters who seem to keep themselves busy day and night expiating the guilt of their ancestors...
...Familiar voices repeated an old and threadbare lie-the miners were merely on a vacation. But almost every one of 400,000 soft-coal miners had left the pits. Blast furnaces had begun to shut down. An anxious government ordered railroads to cut their coal-burning passenger service by 25%. These were the first signs of the palsy which always accompanies a coal strike. It was no nightmare. It was, in fact and flesh, John Lewis again...
...Here We Stand." On May 19, 303 A.D., in the Algerian city of Cirta (now Constantine), one Munatus Felix, high priest of the emperor, personally led a raid on a Christian service. He took with him a stenographer, whose report, taken in shorthand, sounds disconcertingly familiar to modern ears...