Word: familiarly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wise men wander into a manger, but it's the wrong one--no haloed Virgin Mary greets them in the straw; Terry Jones's familiar crone voice--a Python staple from "Penguin on the Telly" on down--bursts any reverential bubble, and we're back in the begrimed world of most Monty Python comedies...
...tests, both verbal and nonverbal, are not expressions of "white culture" that penalize blacks. Surprisingly, blacks do better on "culture-loaded" tests than on "culture-fair" tests that are carefully constructed to root out references more familiar to middle-class whites than to blacks...
...herself, at 41 a svelte mother of two, scissoring and sitting up. · He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about to blow out 89 candles," said Colonel Harland Sanders, perkily paunchy in his familiar white suit at a Louisville party in his honor. Fifteen years ago Sanders sold the fried chicken business he started in 1956, but he still travels 250,000 miles yearly promoting the product for present owner Heublein, Inc. Lest anyone think he's less than finger-lickin' good...
Tranquilizer addiction will surely remain a problem as long as Americans believe that salvation lies in a pill. Says Pursch: "These drugs make people feel better because they make them feel dull and insensitive. But they don't solve anything." His familiar message may be getting through; one survey shows that in the past six years, use of minor tranquilizers in the U.S. has dropped...
...efficiency--is crushing its education offspring in clammy bureaucratic jaws. The Commissioner of Education--the junior executive version of an education secretary--labors under four layers of bureaucratic waste; if, and when he sends up a flare, it never makes it to the top. It is an all too familiar tale of Washington woe: nobody knows--or cares--who is responsible for what...