Word: strangers
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...People in the region of the upper Yukon refer to their part of Alaska as 'the country' "McPhee explains at the start of the final section, which shares the book's title. "A stranger appearing among them is said to have 'come into the country."' The fact is, almost every white person in the country has been such a stranger at one time or another. In Eagle (population 100), the town McPhee focuses on in the last half of the book, you can count on one hand the adults who are native born. The rest have arrived at some point...
...stranger things have happened; Bok didn't go to Harvard, and both Dartmouth and UPenn have Jewish presidents...
...freshman in Greenough was robbed at knife point late last night by a stranger who entered his room through the open door...
...getting stranger and stranger...
Kermode taught at Harvard in the summer of 1961 and has lectured here occasionally since then. "I'm no stranger here," he said yesterday, adding that his wife attended Radcliffe College...