Word: strangers
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...President's delivery was solemn, slow, almost doggedly prayerful and paternal. His main theme was essentially the familiar but enduring notion that the U.S. is not just another country in history, but that its founding was the work of special Providence. The early settlers, "the exile and the stranger, brave but frightened," came to America and "made a covenant with this land. Conceived in justice, written in liberty, bound in union, it was meant one day to inspire the hopes of all mankind." This view of the U.S. as God's country sometimes makes the rest...
Harrington himself is no stranger to basketball at Harvard. Last year he coached the junior varsity, and while playing for the varsity from 1956 to 1959, he ranked sixth among the all-time top ten scorers, with 800 points...
Kenya's witch doctors are an impressive lot. Clad in ostrich plumes, tarbooshes, beaded caps, seashell belts and fur aprons, they emit noises even stranger than their appearance as they stalk along with pebble-filled antelope horns, porcupine quills and fly whisks. Their satchels of leopard or monkey skin bulge with the tools of their trade: magical elixirs (miti-shambd), dead and living animals, hammers, chisels and dung. They represent the only form of medical attention paid to nearly 80% of Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans and Asians, despite a government program that has spent...
Though only a freshman, Shrout is no stranger to top-level competition. He missed the finals of both the Olympic trials and the AAU national championsrip by identical margins, .9 of a second each time, While in Oklahoma for the nationals, he roomed with Don Schollander, who won four gold medals in the Olympics this fall and who enters Yale as a freshman in January...
...development director of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, which helped to set up the new system, "but to the tropical Samoan, such concepts as change in season in temperate climates are enormously confusing." Also difficult is teaching world history to isolated students who may not even see a stranger all year...