Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual for a President to falter as he approaches midterm, and this has to be especially true in an era of unprecedented media exposure. The once fresh face and crisp, new manner have be come familiar as the local grocer's. What may have been entertaining idiosyncrasies, like Truman's salty language, Eisenhower's chronic golfing and Carter's reflexive grin, can become slightly irritating. No longer larger than life, as on the triumphant eve of Inauguration, the mid-term President starts looking all too vulnerably human...
...were on hand to greet Chinese Vice Premier Keng Piao and his 27-member entourage. The visitor declared that "China and Jamaica both belong to the Third World." Later, at a luncheon given by Democratic Socialist Prime Minister Michael Manley, the handsome, white-haired Chinese leader delivered a now familiar blast at the Americans and the Russians: "The superpowers are racking their brains to divide and sabotage the Third World movement by despicable means, but the nonaligned countries are uniting to frustrate their schemes." By week's end Keng had completed similar whirlwind propaganda visits to Trinidad and Tobago...
...form of a heart attack. Now, after three nights of sold-out adulation and guffaw at Long Island's Westbury Music Fair, he leans forward from his French Colonial chair in Manhattan's chic Pierre Hotel--he is surrounded by the stuff of decadence--and talks in his familiar streetguy talk, as he must have talked to the neighborhood kids in White Harlem 25 years ago, airing not so much as a hint of malcontent or overindulgence...
...graduation, Procter and Gamble Executive Jack Simpson claimed convincingly that he was delighted to be there, jostling hip to hip with dozens of others under a dripping canvas before the bonfire finally got lit. "It's marvelous," said he, and went on to muse on time's familiar way of shrinking one's childhood world: "When I was a kid, that Allegheny Bridge was the Golden Gate. Today I realized I could clear it with a 9-iron...
Carter drew on this incident to make one of his most effective answers to questions from an audience of some 1,000 people as he held one of his familiar "town meetings" at West Berlin's "Kongress-halle." He noted that "15 years ago when John Kennedy came here, they [the East Germans] covered the wall with a drape. Now at 2:30 a.m. the East Germans whitewashed it and tried to cover the ugly spectacle again. But I don't think anything can hide the deprivation of human rights represented by that wall." The audience, wearing earphones...