Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...food than on the galactic beauty of the scene outside. Vinson and his wife Lois are on their way home to Memphis the long, old-fashioned way: across the Rockies to Chicago, then south on the City of New Orleans. Every inch, every jolt, every valley is familiar to him and much loved, for when he retired with a gold watch last August, Woody had worked the trains for 51 years...
...pelvic inflammatory disease, which left her sterile. Internal Searle documents released by court order suggest that the company knew of physicians' safety concerns about the Copper-7 but kept on selling it. In a 1980 memo, a Searle doctor warned company officials that "all studies with which I am familiar conclude that all IUDs enhance the potential...
...Communist rebels disrupted national elections by destroying power lines, kidnapping local officials, and threatening terrorist attacks on innocent civilians. And notwithstanding his offer to step down as armed forces chief, Gen. Manuel Noriega still maintains his grip on the reins of power in Panama--a country where the once-familiar "Yanqui go home" has now become "Noriega go home...
...previous novels include Hotel du Lac, the 1984 winner of Britain's top fiction award, the Booker Prize. Yet despite her finished style and genteel settings, she is as hard-boiled as any writer of detective fiction. Many of Brookner's principals are updatings of that familiar character, the English spinster as connoisseur of other people's behavior. Rachel is not only unattached but detached, a state that suits her analytical intelligence and chilly rectitude...
America does not always have such a hot record when it comes to dealing with foreign governments of which, on moral grounds, it should loudly disapprove. The rationale is familiar: at least they're our sons of bitches. Israel has never been in that category. It is a nation that America should and does applaud, making any moments of dissatisfaction exceptions that prove the rule. Half a world away lives a remarkable civilization born of a moral issue, suffused with moral questions, most of whose people know perfectly well when their government is right and when it is wrong...