Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Moment. The nation's moral position was clear. Even as Molotov in Paris raised the familiar cry of U.S. interference, George Marshall flung the charge back. The U.S. had already sent Europe some $9 billion in food and goods since the war's end; the U.S. had demobilized, unbidden, the greatest military power the world had ever seen...
...host who entered was not Hoover but Federal Trade Commissioner Lowell Mason; he had paid $84 out of his own pocket for the luncheon, including the roses, currently selling at the summer bargain price of 72? a dozen. With Mason were familiar capital figures: New Jersey's lumbering Senator Albert Hawkes, Presidential Economic Adviser Edwin Nourse, White House Aide Charles Murphy, New York's Congressman Frederic Coudert. There was one stranger, a fierce-eyed, one-armed man whom nobody knew...
...foreigners in Berlin the tale had a familiar sound. They remembered, dimly, having heard other versions, all pointing toward the moral that "the guilty flee when no man pursueth." But the Germans, as they passed the story around last week, knew it might be true...
...Paris classroom last week, a pupil scrawled a familiar bit of U.S. doggerel across the blackboard: "No more classes; no more books; no more teacher's cross-eyed looks." He was an American schoolboy, and most of his 140 classmates were Americans too. The same afternoon, wilting in the hot Paris sun, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery spoke at exercises for the first six students to graduate from the school in seven years...
...headlines. A girl reporter named "Wendy Warren" (Actress Florence Freeman) follows him, shrills out 45 seconds of "women's news," promptly plunges into her tortured fictional love life. By the end of the first broadcast, the new heroine was in an old, all-too-familiar lather. "She turns deathly pale," the announcer confided, "and, but for Gil Kendal's ready arm, would fall...