Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pacific and even to the Indian Ocean. He had taught Navy communications in San Diego, had served in the Pacific as communications watch officer aboard the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise and had been in charge of communications security at the Alameda Naval Air Station near Oakland. He was familiar with the Navy's Indian Ocean activities thanks to two tours of duty at the highly secret base on the remote island of Diego Garcia. The FBI claimed that Whitworth had operated "at the heart of Navy communications." Retired Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll called him "a dream agent" for the Soviets...
Another time, somebody asked Smith about the plot we were all working on, and he said, "The answer to this mystery is a little bit more complicated than the Talmud." Well, that set them off. You see, not everybody in the gang was familiar with the Talmud. A lot of these people came because the weekend was in a Neiman-Marcus catalog and they're from places like Texas and stuff. "What's the Talmud?" one of the Texans inquired...
...better than anyone else that the melodic drama in so many of his songs -- of which the majestic cresting chorus of Ol' Man River is the most famous example -- demanded a dramatic anchor only the lyric theater could provide. Of the thousand or so songs he composed, the only familiar one not written for a show or movie was The Last Time I Saw Paris. He mercilessly cut any song that did not fit its situation. Conversely, he was a great hoarder and tinkerer. Alter just a few bars of Till the Clouds Roll By and presto! it becomes Look...
...smile when you say cliche. McMurtry is a storyteller who works hard to satisfy his audience's yearning for the familiar. What, after all, are legends made of? The secret of his success is embellishment, the odd detail or colorful phrase that keeps the tale from slipping into a rut. During a thunderstorm, a cowboy is amazed to see little blue balls of electricity rolling on the horns of cattle. "You stayed gone a while" is poetry compared with "Long time...
...Bashing" came into vogus, and the 6-ft., 8-in., cigar-smoking Fed chairman became a familiar figure on Capitol Hill, where he was frequently called to testify before irate Congressional committees...