Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...western Europe, stood toe-to-toe in occupied Germany. Weakened France, nervously balancing its position in the west against the new power in the east, was using its claims to a share of Germany as a bargaining point with both Britain and Russia. The U.S., well into an unfamiliar game, had based its occupation plans (see below) on the assumption that Germany was to be solely an occupation problem. Now, before the occupation was well begun, that assumption was dead...
...confirming his fear that 1946 was completely unfamiliar with the ivy-covered folklore of the 300-year old institution, he swing on his Freshman room-mate accusingly. "Did you ever hear of the old letter-carrier who used to climb across the roof from one entry of Matthews to the other, as a short-cut to save steps?" he demanded. Upon the expected "no," Vag settled back and sighed unhappily...
...Roosevelt to write an article for Confessions, the Brothers Fawcett reached respectability with a capital R. But big-name contributors are only incidental music to a magazine with so pat an editorial formula: 1) no heroine is ever extremely poor or rich, and no story is ever set in unfamiliar lands (Confessions' middle-class readers can thus envision themselves in every tell-all); 2) since the readers live drab lives, they naturally wonder what would have happened if they had gone sinning instead - and by reading about sin in True Confessions, they have the satisfaction of knowing that they...
Representatives of the several undergraduate organizations will speak at an activities meeting to be held on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Men unfamiliar with the student activities at Harvard will find this an excellent opportunity to learn about them...
Gift-item wholesalers, who thrive in times of famine, were the only happy men. They took orders as they came, but made no delivery promises. The quality of some of the items spoke sadly for U.S. taste, and proved again that dollars often burn hottest in unfamiliar pockets. Said one plump buyer, clutching a dismal little religious diorama made of shells and priced to retail at $6: "Aren't they awful? But they'll sell." Other bestsellers...