Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene, for anybody who has indulged in Nevada's favorite public pastime, was familiar. The room was quiet except for the snap of cards, the clack of poker chips and murmuring of the players. At nine tables, the gamblers played stud, low ball, twenty-one or panguingui. The cards were dealt, the winners raked in the pots. Then, at 3:20 p.m., a bugle blew, and all the players got up and went back to their cells. Gambling at Nevada's State Prison in Carson City was closed...
...seen no point to making any summit decisions; a Labor victory would have confronted the rest of the Western alliance with a British government that needed time to learn the ropes and that might well have proposed summit schemes even flashier than Macmillan's. Now, assured of a familiar quantity in London, Western foreign offices could settle down to working out a unified position for the great confrontation with Khrushchev...
...Crimson has worked long this week in defensing Columbia's muddle huddle. Coming out of a huddle ten yards to the side of the ball, the Lions split into two units. Though they generally shift then into a more familiar Wing T, occasionally they run a fast quick pitch from the split formation which is good for 15 yards against an unadjusted defense...
Volunteer subjects were trained to go into hypnosis easily and deeply. After they were thoroughly familiar with the nature of the trance state, they met Shor for the first time. The subjects were then placed on an apparatus called a polygraph, an amazing device built by Bernard Tursky, and developed at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center. The polygraph measures the changes in perspiration, heart rate, respiration, and muscle tension...
...Your Life, it was bound to happen; some hero would come along and kick over the bucket of treacle. It happened last week. The scene: a sports banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Astor. When M.C. Ralph ("Happy") Edwards advanced on Correspondent and World Traveler Lowell Thomas with the familiar, savagely cheerful cry ("This is your life"), Thomas simply refused to play. An old hand at radio and TV himself, Thomas had guessed (like many subjects nowadays) that he had been chosen for the honor of having his life re-created as a half-hour soap opera. Thomas snarled...