Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd chanted "Perón! Perón! Perón!" Then some, apparently intoxicated by the familiar two-syllable rhythm, began to shout "Duce! Duce! Duce!" That brought counter-shouts of "Down with Franco! Down with Perón! Down with Fascism!" The abashed figure on the balcony heard it all; she was, Argentine officials said later, upset...
Jimmy Stewart got a "meritorious service" citation from the General Federation of Women's Clubs, convening in Manhattan. When outgoing President Mrs. La Fell Dickinson fluffed her lines during the presentation, Actor Stewart, who looks as comforting as every mother's son should look, played his familiar role to the hilt...
Bach: Suites Nos. 2 & 3 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 10 sides). A proper and stately performance of two of the best of Bach's suites. Includes the familiar Air for the G String. Recording: good...
...many papers and periodicals which have been saying with a little shrug that war does, after all, seem the only way out. But to those who are not quite so perfervid about getting into it now, the Committee's ideas seem sound. Some of these ideas are old, familiar, yet supremely important--that there is no defense against atomic weapons; that if by a mutual, unspoken agreement we simply abandon the idea of world government, we must logically begin an immediate preventive war; that the possession of bomb piles by states moving in terms of classic nationalism must also mean...
...Albert Herring, Librettist Eric Crozier did a slapstick adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's cynical Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, in which an innocent village bumpkin goes off on a wild, sinful night after being chosen King of the May. Britten scored it for chamber orchestra in his familiar brittle, witty and forcefully dissonant style...