Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a timid swimmer dabbling his toes in the sea, Britain has hesitated to work for full economic, political and military union with Western Europe. The familiar warmth of the imperial sun that never sets felt too cozy to make a plunge attractive...
Last week, Pleven brought his proposition half into the open. In a careful statement to the press he reviewed the familiar facts of crisis in Western Europe. "In the face of these eventualities," he concluded, "I consider it is in the interests of France, Europe and peace that there should be as strong a government as possible in France. By strong, I mean reposing on the biggest possible majority of the French people. . . . National interest demands an understanding . . . between General de Gaulle and Robert Schuman...
...their slouching poses, and the drab color of their flesh and their surroundings. What made gallerygoers look at them twice, and also made museum directors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Manhattan's Metropolitan and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute buy up the best, was a familiar (and faintly angelic) detachment in their expressions: the off-guard pensiveness of girls who think themselves alone and unobserved-dressing and undressing, yawning, idly reading, or waiting for a train or subway...
...Here & there the novel has a kind of Oriental power of hallucination: experiences blend and retreat; characters dissolve; a spell is cast by the very remoteness of the happenings so precisely described. At such moments the novel seems a blend of several books, about an India that seems partly familiar and partly a new world of still formless action...
...Museum workers," he continued, "are almost the only zoologists today who are familiar with lives and functions of animals in a state of nature," and he concluded, "this information should be utilized...