Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist settled confidently into the witness chair in Manhattan's federal courtroom last week and started his familiar spiel. Witness Anthony Krchmarek, a minor Communist functionary from Ohio, had come to lend his assurance that the party would not harm even a flea, much less overthrow a Government. He soon found himself talking into the teeth of some expert testimony from a fellow Ohioan: William Cummings, a Toledo auto worker who had spent six years among the Communists as an undercover agent...
This was getting to be a familiar experience for defense witnesses in the trial of the eleven top U.S. Communist leaders. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey had kept another witness, Daily Worker Editor John Gates, squirming for six grueling days on that same stand...
This week found radio wrestling rather self-consciously with its soul. The tempter was that familiar old devil, John Barleycorn, represented by Schenley Industries, Inc. Schenley had quietly asked if the networks would now be willing to sell time on the air for whisky advertisements...
Hard pressed by the book slump, Haldeman-Julius had decided to junk his familiar, plain format in favor of a new look. From his printing house in Girard, Kans. (pop. 2,500), he will continue to fill mail orders for everything from Practical Masonry (No. 1,232) to Margaret Sanger's What Every Girl Should Know (No. 14). But from now on, the Blue Books will be dressed up in lively, illustrated jackets in every color except blue...
After four years of British Socialism, the Tory party last week opened a major campaign to persuade the voters that it was time for a change-but not much change. The Conservatives issued a 68-page booklet called The Right Road for Britain. Its theme was familiar to Americans who remembered how Wendell Willkie and Thomas E. Dewey tried to beat the Roosevelt New Deal. The Tories promised to keep most of the reforms the Labor Party had introduced; but they would carry them out better, and cheaper...