Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house most of the city's population of 1.3 million have been replaced by towering apartment blocks, "because they are more efficient to heat," as one official explains. Journalists were discouraged from wandering off on their own down side streets. But, even along the main avenues, those familiar with the teeming pavements and traffic jams of Seoul, the South Korean capital, were surprised by the small number of people in the streets. The official explanation is that since the industrious North Koreans are exhorted to toil eight hours, study eight hours and sleep eight hours during...
...frowns on those familiar television faces? In Howard K. Smith's case, it's because the venerable newscaster is piqued that ABC News under Roone Arledge seems less and less interested in the learned commentary that Smith delivers. As a result, he tacked a bull to the newsroom bulletin board announcing an abrupt resignation from "a job without a real function...
Over at NBC, meanwhile, Tonight Host Johnny Carson loudly complains of fatigue after 17 years at the helm and wants to break out of a contract with two more years to run. Carson's blasts about overwork and diminishing creativity have a strangely familiar sound. Not unlike the media war he waged against NBC two years ago in order to trim his five-a-week live appearances...
...world is familiar with Sirica's reading of that letter in open court. What it does not know is that below the dead-pan was an emotion that approached glee. "This is it," Sirica allowed himself to think in prosecutorial tones. "This is what I've been hoping for." As it turned out, members of the Administration were not the only ones on trial. Sirica's unbridled temper and his less than brilliant reputation were large targets for the defense attorneys. But the old pugilist had not forgotten how to feint and duck. He remained imperturbable, retired to a neutral...
...description will shift a little. I'd hope it would be someone who's familiar with the people--being a long-standing pro is not absolutely essential" he said...