Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue Ridge peak in search of Flight 410, then more than twelve hours overdue in Washington. Through a break in the clouds, Franklin saw a dreadful scatter of wings and burned fuselage, near the top of the peak. It was a scene with which the U.S. had become terribly familiar in the last three weeks. Flight 410 had hit the peak head-on 150 feet below the summit. There were no survivors...
...judge didn't know it, but the infant whose name was in question, yowling upstairs, was to be a famous sculptor. The clenched red hands of young Daniel Chester French would one day mold Concord's familiar Minute Man, John Harvard at Cambridge, and the seated Lincoln for Washington's Lincoln Memorial. He would live 81 fortunate years, and his wife and daughter would each write a book about him. Daniel's daughter, Margaret French Cresson, herself a sculptor, has written the better book, Journey into Fame (Harvard University Press; $4.50), published this week...
...Secrets. In World War I, Hansard staffers showed up at every secret session, were invariably excluded, locked their notebooks in the editor's cupboard at night with the pages blank. They did not even try to cover the secret debates of World War II. Hansard's familiar blue-book (white since 1943) was often delayed a day by bombings, but never missed an issue. Today Hansard sells (at 6d.) or gives away 9,876 copies an issue, the biggest circulation in its history...
...familiar: the dead air, the unnatural darkness, the faint smell of dust. People in Woodward and the other towns of the pan-flat Oklahoma-Texas wheat belt (which lost over 150 citizens in the disastrous twister of April 9) shivered when they saw the new storm coming last week. They assumed that they were still on the main line and dived for storm cellars. They were understandably hasty-the twister struck 40 miles south in tiny Leedey, tore it apart and killed...
...Emperor Meiji's classic Shinto ghost would toss about in dismay inside the quiet Meiji Shrine, if it knew what was happening at the Diet building a few miles away. Though some might say that Japanese politics there were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist...