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Word: familiarizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if the confidence her teammates displayed in her ability as a leader came as a surprise, the role is a familiar one. As a co-captain of her high school team in her final two years there, she led the team to the state small school championship both years, a tribute to her leadership skills...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Elaine Kellogg Team Leader With Eyes for a Title | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

Perhaps the first play of the game should have told everyone that this would be a day controlled by circumstance. UMass began its first series with an illegal procedure penalty. The menacing yellow handkerchief would go on to be the most familiar performer of the game. Eleven of 16 penalties would go against Harvard. The mistakes would cost the Crimson 141 yards, a total that stymied the offense and did its best to deflate a stubbornly stellar defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass Penalizes Crimson, 20-7 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...sisters are familiar with such temporal matters, having used positions as stockholders to press for policy changes at J.P. Stevens, Rockwell International and McDonnell Douglas. But this is the first time that the nuns have ever filed a suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stinging Nuns | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Rubin says she hears about SHS too, but not postitively. Already eight freshmen have complained to her that they have not heard from their guide. This story has a familiar ring...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Help Wanted | 9/28/1979 | See Source »

...most inspired tune, he could be singing "Hard Rain." But Dylan falls below the usual quality of his well-known calls of the wild. In the same song, his nasal vocals are so strained his voice sounds like a parody of itself. The closest Dylan gets to his familiar tone is on the title track--the most political of the album's songs. But just when it sounds like the old Dylan, with angry lyrics about political ironies and human scum, Dylan starts singing about "slow train." Then you realize the slow train that's going to railroad...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: The Gospel According to Bob | 9/26/1979 | See Source »

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