Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, conservative in his estimate of success. This "unprecedented endeavor," he said, would be "neither sure nor easy . . . against the avowed determination of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party to oppose and sabotage it at every turn." But, in his now familiar phrase, it represented the "calculated risk." He calculated that it would require every penny of the $6.8 billion that he and President Truman had set as the cost of the program for the first 15 months...
...Fantastic Accusation." The story started with China, and a familiar warlord's defense. Japan's actions, said Tojo, were motivated chiefly by the threat of Chinese Communism. "This was all done with a view to saving East Asia from the danger of bolshevization and at the same time to make herself a barrier against world bolshevization. The present condition of the world two years after the end of World War II eloquently tells how important these barriers were...
...Florentines could put in a contract, besides the mundane measurements, the stipulation that their cathedral be designed "so as to be worthy of a heart expanded to much greatness." That spirit suffused the whole city; the images of its faith stood everywhere. They were at least as close and familiar as the Hollywood dreamworld is today, and more vivid -especially at Christmas...
Objectives. The commission came to a familiar conclusion, but had some strong remedies to suggest. "For the great majority of our boys & girls," the commission said, "the kind and amount of education they can hope to attain depends not on their abilities, but on the family or community to which they happen to be born, or worse still, on the color of their skin or the religion of their parents." The U.S. must have an educational system "in which at no level. . . will a qualified individual in any part of the country encounter an insuperable economic barrier to the attainment...
American Album of Familiar Music (Sun. 9:30 p.m., NBC). A generous wreath of carols...