Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sobering Statistics. Addressing an overflow crowd in the Laurence Frost Amphitheater, Hoover wore a soft collar instead of his once-familiar high, stiff one, but there was nothing soft-collared about his message. "We're on the last mile to collectivism," he declared. "Dynamic progress is not made with dynamite. And that dynamite today is the geometrical increase in the spending of our governments...
...streets of Berlin, hope grew thinner, as did the long-familiar, reassuring roar of the airlift planes. The three Western commandants asked their Military Governments to make Berlin a long-term loan of $136 million. Before flying to Washington last week, where he is seeking new recruits for the fast-dwindling U.S. occupation staff, High Commissioner John McCloy promised Mayor Reuter that he would try to get direct Marshall Aid for Berlin. The U.S. expected the city's defense to continue costing money...
...sleepy old town of Moyobamba, in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes, men, women & children turned out to cheer; with 17 soldiers and four civilians, Lieut. Colonel Juan Heysen was setting out to find the fabled Angayza mountain. To Peruvians familiar with the legends of Angayza, this was "Operation El Dorado...
...regular trips to Mexico City, Roulette Goddord swapped sweet nothings at Los Angeles Airport with a new leading man, Clark Gable. Purred Paulette: "Goodbye, sugar." Cooed Clark: "Goodbye, honey." For newsmen taking down the dialogue, Gable had another line with the old familiar ring: "Just say we're a couple of longtime friends...
Strindberg's fears and passions eventually found relief of sorts in the old, familiar sound of the church bells. He came to believe that each of his ordeals was merely a penance on his own road to Damascus. He went home, and became the Grand Old Man of Swedish letters. While he was dying of cancer of the stomach, he wanted to have his children near him. One evening, while his daughter Karin was at his bedside, he picked up the Bible and murmured: "Everything is atoned for." Soon afterwards, he died...