Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brash young leaders with small offices and big dreams-these are the centurions of the movement that claims the title of America's New Right. Its general goals, a drastic reduction in domestic government activity and a hard anti-Communist line abroad, are familiar enough. So is its rhetoric. But the New Right has developed some fresh, effective tactics. It scored a few surprising electoral upsets last year, and now it smells blood...
...took the test in Spanish, which I figured I had a shot at passing after 8 years of the stuff. The written part was uneventful; at the least the words looked familiar. But the oral comprehension was another matter. "Pedro--" began the woman on the tape, promisingly. "Yatakatakatakatakatakatakatakataka." "Dios mio!" came the response. "Yatakatakatakatakatakataka." I gave up after the second line and just laughed. I was not alone. Some guy got up and did the flamenco. My score on the test was 415, which, by the law of averages, I would have scored on the placement test in Urdu...
...after about 50 pages, LeBoutillier forgets about Harvard, and the book's title--a misnomer to start with--drops from sight. What we get instead, is John LeBoutillier's philosophy on government, as derived from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Harvard history courses at their most simplistic level, and his senior thesis--which had something to do with the origins of the Republican Party...
...slow down, huh?" he pleaded. The wolf was now treading familiar woods, full of scent and semen...
Only six square miles in sizes, Cambridge is easy to become familiar with. The Charles River is one boundary, the Somerville town line the other, and in between the layout is fairly simple. Commerical life is concentrated in the four squares that dot Massachusetts Avenue, the main artery running the length of the city...