Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permit to admit TIME to Argentina, where TIME has been banned for the last 21 months, was refused. The occasion of this refusal seems to me to be as good a time as any to review the events leading up to it. They fit a pattern that has become familiar to TIME-LIFE International, publishers of our overseas editions, in its business of distributing TIME to anyone who wants to read it anywhere in the world...
...best. But the familiar, arrogant zip had gone. Jersey City had heard him out when it went to the polls last week. That day, after 36 years of pious corruption and political tyranny, Boss Hague was toppled from his throne...
...small (900) that "I could carry the entire issue on my back." Today, says Grosvenor, who shares his magazine's passionate addiction to detail, "A single issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...
...Charley Henry, the peddler, was a familiar figure in Winchester, Va. (pop.: 14,000), for he had lived there all his life. A few oldtimers remembered him as a young man, standing tall and straight by his vegetable cart or striding briskly down to the Lutheran Church with his wife Fannie on his arm. But as the years passed, Charley had changed; he was no longer the laughing, lively fellow he had once been...
...errors . . ." Finally, last week, like hundreds of other Soviet intellectuals, Varga decided, things being as they are, it was time to retract. Admitting that he had not "acted cleverly," he dutifully sent in his recantation, for the current issue of Questions of Economics. It sounded familiar-almost as though the Russians now had printed forms for these occasions. Wrote Varga: "I formed a whole chain of errors of a reformist trend-which naturally also means of a cosmopolitan trend-because they beautify capitalism . . . [My errors] have caused great harm and compelled our economists to return to questions long ago correctly...