Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the court-martial acquitted Little of all charges. But the case did not die there. Some veterans' organizations raised the familiar charge that Navy courts-martial have one brand of justice for enlisted men and another for fellow officers. West Virginia's Senator Harley M. Kilgore and New York's Democratic Representative Donald O'Toole demanded that the secret record of the proceedings be opened up for congressional inspection. Said Kilgore: "Such [secret] trials may be necessary in wartime, but they certainly are contrary to our peacetime ideas of justice...
Last week Harry St. John B. Philby, Briton-turned-Moslem, familiar intriguer in the Arab world and intimate of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, arrived in India "to buy tents." He went into a huddle with Moslem Leaguers and Hyderabad officials. Delhi was sure Jinnah was angling for the support of Moslem states in the Middle East...
...Familiar Faces. For nearly 30 minutes last week a procession of black and multicolored robes filed across the "front campus" before famed old Nassau Hall. There, 6,000 spectators, seated in shadows under Princeton's elms ("An adorable place, is it not?" Woodrow Wilson used to say), cheered whenever they recognized a celebrity. There were, besides Home-Towner Albert Einstein, Selman Abraham Waksman, the discoverer of streptomycin...
...Dark. "Looking back through the years, I find it hard to put the finger of memory on the beginning. Almost before I knew it, I was no longer called to the White House for morning bedside conferences, my phone no longer brought the familiar voice in mellifluous familiarity, and months dragged between White House luncheon conferences. Soon I found I was no longer being consulted on appointments, even in my own state. . . White House confidence on politics and policies went to a small band of zealots, who mocked at party loyalty and knew no devotion except to their leader...
Power supply is no problem. Colonel McCutcheon describes the various reaction engines which will power guided missiles, at least until atomic propulsion is perfected. Best known is the familiar turbojet. A compressor draws air through the engine's nose. Burning fuel heats and expands it. The hot blast roars out the tail at over 1,000 miles an hour, giving a mighty push. Before the gases reach the open, they spin a turbine, which powers the compressor...