Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collars of their wide-welt cord jackets that "there's too much tinsel in the air." But just when it's getting the coldest, the days growing shortest, and the future looking most barren who can deny that we all like to return to the warm womb of familiar old Christmas? Who can say it isn't great to see that fecund, fetid growth of oozing summer at last driven from the earth as the land is purified by the cold...
...West Germany. Nothing so underscored France's reduced position as the cancellation of next year's nuclear tests in the Pacific, in which France was expected to explode its first missile-sized H-bomb. Doubtless the general will continue to talk of grandeur and gloire with his familiar fervor, but until the soundness of the franc is restored, the old perorations must necessarily have a hollow ring...
...done, Ohio State Coach Woody Hayes likes to tilt back in his chair and worry-not about pass patterns or blocking assignments, but "about civilization," especially the lack of appreciation for him and his teams. Hayes, who last fielded a nationally acclaimed team in 1961, is all too familiar with fan fickleness. "When you come out of that stadium an hour and a half after a game," he says, "and there is no one there to congratulate you, it gets pretty lonely. You love it when a little kid happens to come up and say, 'Good game, Mr. Hayes...
Paradoxically, the ultimate is the talking menu. Instead of relying on the nonsensical literary sell, a waiter recites what the chef will offer that day. All very well; if the diner is not familiar with a dish, he has merely to inquire. However, in a few fancy restaurants, the answer is chillingly familiar. "This, monsieur, is a delicate blend of exotic ingredients...
...light and land and air. Like those remote ancestors, man, too, has striven continually to seek what he has never known before. He has ranged restlessly across the surface of his world; he has traveled back into the primordial oceans; he has learned to fly through his now familiar skies. For the past seven years, he has probed the vacuum of space, soaring as high as 853 miles above the earth. Now, after billions of years of evolution-and, incredibly, within the present blink of history-he is ready to make the great escape from his own planet...