Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mainly on a catch-as-catch-can basis. In Athens, the Robert Lows could figure on no central heating after ten o'clock, candlelight after 1 a.m., and no dancing at all (forbidden because of Greece's "cold war"). In divided, blockaded Berlin, under the now familiar drone of the airlift planes, most bureau-men planned to spend New Year's quietly at home, or, more likely, out covering the news. In Shanghai, where no one could plan more than a few days ahead, TIME Inc.'s staff could not be sure of celebrating...
...fanatically loyal friend who flew from Washington to attend the funeral of Boss Tom Pendergast, the same engaging Missourian who tripped over his academic gown and blurted: "Whups! I forgot to pull up my dress." Home in Independence for Christmas last week, Harry Truman tramped through the familiar streets with careless informality, dropped in on his friends, doffed his hat to neighbors. Like any well-trained husband, he carefully knocked the snow off his boots before going into the house...
...pretty much the rule with intimate revues, Lend an Ear is almost completely new faces and unknown names. But a number of these-as is pretty much the rule, too, when the revues are any good-may before long be pleasantly familiar. Among the others: Yvonne Adair, George Hall and Carol Channing, a large doll-eyed blonde who can be almost spectacularly funny...
...Connolly attempted to figure out how to write a book that would attain the "immortality" of lasting for ten years-nine years longer, say, than the average novel. His own book on the subject, Enemies of Promise, has made the grade: first published in 1938, it has become a familiar, if not a favorite, of many English and U.S. intellectuals. It has now been reissued, and the story it tells is as interesting and topical as ever...
...hard to remember them, probably because he has simply wrenched them out of life's context to illustrate his philosophy of despair. His stories have the effect of leaving the reader temporarily as debilitated as his characters. The feeling doesn't last long. A glance at any familiar living face dissipates...