Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sentimentally, G.I.s want home to be just as they left it. But they know too that they themselves have changed. Often they wonder aloud if their families and friends have changed as much or in the same directions. Out of danger and suffering comes a new, unfamiliar searching for beliefs and principles. And from the searching comes maturity...
...another good Broadway-derived melodrama, Tomorrow the World (TIME, Jan. 15), in which a little boy from Hitler's Germany tries to tear an American household apart. The heroine of Guest in the House is quite unpolitical, but she is a spiritual Nazi - a power-mad, not unfamiliar feminine type for whom psychiatrists could supply accurate names...
...within two hours he was again brusquely awakened. This time lookouts could plainly see the shape of an unfamiliar (hence unfriendly) submarine conning tower in the murky dawn. At full speed ahead, Outerbridge pointed the Ward straight for the submarine. At 100-yards range he ordered the No. 1 gun to fire-the first U.S. shot of World War II in the Pacific. The second shot struck the conning tower. Four depth charges finished off what turned out to have been a Japanese midget...
There Is Much To Do. The school bell rang. The little girls bustled onto their narrow benches. Sister Elizabeth called the roll. Instead of "Hier!", the little girls answered "Ici", and giggled at the unfamiliar sound. Then Sister Elizabeth spoke in French, translating phrase by phrase into the Alsatian German dialect...
...column ad in the New York Times for a cartoon of a befuddled, determined male saying to a glamorous second-floor dummy: "I'm looking for the Renoir peignoir with the fabulous moonbeam bow." Underneath, Macy's printed "The Man's Glossary (revised 1944 edition) of Unfamiliar Words & Phrases-As Used by Advertising Writers to Describe Female Apparel and Appurtenances." Sample definitions...