Word: familiars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more splendid when the Eager John is accompanied by its graceful satellite missile, the Joyful Jacqueline. The Eager John has a tendency to yaw between North and South, which appears at times to check its forward motion. No expense is being spared, however, in correcting these faults, and the familiar hoffa-hoffa-hoffa sound of the Eager John's mighty engines is certain to be heard in the land, one way or another...
...juvenile delinquency, with two days of hearings in Manhattan on what the Federal Government could do to help combat teen-age violence. Hennings & Co. heard plenty of suggestions-from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, an assortment of city officials-but it was all pretty familiar, e.g., the Federal Government ought to curb interstate shipments of firearms, give the cities more money for youth programs...
...over Western Europe, tanned, crew-cut boys and golden girls in ponytails reluctantly faced up last week to the end of the prodigal summer, began settling back into the familiar patterns of work, family and school. Listening to their nostalgic tales of Stockholm love affairs, or bikini-and-bistro living on Spain's Costa Brava, their elders brooded over the appalling deficiencies of Europe's younger generation. To Britain's Arthur Koestler, they seemed "earnest, bland, sober ... a generation without profile, whose typical gesture is a great silent shrug." In Germany, a Volkswagen personnel man remarked with...
...makes Reds red-eyed. After three weeks she came back with a stack of well-filled notebooks, turned out a dozen columns on her impressions of Russia ("Everybody needed a bath and a haircut"; "Russians put a premium on brains"; "a warm, affectionate people"). Through all her copy ran familiar Landers material: "Ivan is worried about Irena's supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been coming home quite late." "Ludmilla and Serge are in love and want to get married, but they must wait at least two years for an apartment. Elina...
...Oliver Backstage (Dot LP), Singer-Arranger Oliver converses on Whatever Lola Wants, Seventy-Six Trombones, Grant Avenue, with the air of a man rocking a hammock. The familiar exercises have rarely had more infectious grace...