Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment" for the other to make a solo entrance, finally came in together. But such lapses are rare, and none but the sharpest critical ears have managed to detect them. The reason, Badura-Skoda points out, is that most of the music they play is from a literature totally unfamiliar to modern audiences. "What we are doing," he says proudly, "is a very old-fashioned thing...
Dorothy Baker, whose Young Man with a Horn (TIME, June 6, 1938) looked steadily at a great jazzman, and Edward Hoagland, who lighted up the life of the circus in Cat Man (TIME, Jan. 16, 1956). They too were first novels, and they too dealt with character in unfamiliar surroundings...
...like a whipping rope, changing both speed and altitude. A jetliner that gets into its core may arrive at its destination hours ahead of schedule with its tanks still heavy with unburned fuel. But judging by the experience of Air Force pilots, whose jet bombers have been flying the unfamiliar highways of the upper air for years, commercial pilots will probably not find it worthwhile to try for this maximum joyride. The stream's twisting center is hard to follow, and it often takes the airplane far from its course. Most pilots will be content to pick...
...shot from guns. We remember the sidekicks: Vic, Tank Tinker, Jim and Penny and Clipper. We remember the villains; the Gray Ghost, Dr. Martelli, the secret agents with German accents, who called one another Klaus and Fritz and Karl. There were, of course, comic books, and we are not unfamiliar with Superman, Batman and Robin, or the Plastic Man. But mostly we listened, and imagined...
...American's stewardesses for the jet age. Her tasks: teaching the girls to cope with the extra passengers and extra facilities (oxygen masks, self-contained air conditioning) of the new jets, give passengers "a sense of security" by explaining the jet's new aeronautical features and such unfamiliar terms as Mach, the measure of jet speed...