Word: unbeknownst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sucks, but what else can you do?" a student said as he picked up his check last week. It seems that information about how the Coop is run and how decisions are made is kept at a minimum. Why doesn't the Coop send us an annual report? Unbeknownst to most students, we members do elect representatives to the Coop board of directors for one-year terms. So far, these student directors have consisted of resume-stuffing candidates who spend most of their time laboring on charity subcommittees and the like, instead of wielding a powerful voice in the Coop...
...White House, those running the NSC computer -- unbeknownst to North and his colleagues -- were keeping backup tapes of each file in the system, a routine practice. These backups, which are typically made on a daily or weekly basis, included copies of files containing the private notes of every NSC officer with a password. In response to requests from the Tower commission, White House Communications Agency programmers searched their storage tapes for NSC memos and eventually turned over a stack of printouts nearly 4 ft. high. Explains Donn Parker, a computer security specialist at SRI International: "It is so ingrained...
Instead of precise instruments and control dials guiding man's ordered observations, Mr. Palomar performs an awkward ritual, blinding himself with his flashlight and fumbling with charts of the heavens. This image is itself the only stable reference point for the Reader, the riveted audience of Calvino's quest. Unbeknownst to Mr. Palomar absorbed in his charts, a little crowd of onlookers gathers, whispering and observing "his movements like the convulsions of a madman." Unbeknownst to the Reader absorbed in the book, Calvino has manipulated him out into the open, where he can observe his Reader, placed among Mr. Palomar...
...Scaithe is Kimberly's daughter, Penny, who has grown up under a false name after being abandoned by her father as a young girl. After a tearful reunion. Penny realizes that her father is the fox in a massive hunt and she hides him away in the country. Yet unbeknownst to Penny, her lover of the past year is also a secret agent working on the case who eventually leads Scaither to Kimberly. Le Carre fans will recognize this twist as a direct crib from Smiley's People, in which George Smiley, by kindnapping his Russian rival's daughter, pulls...
...Heads and Elvis Costello braved the stifling heat to go where Bostonians are in July and August--namely Cape Cod. But the gruesome Colineum in north Yarmouth has bit the dust. Where the summer tours of the likes of Elvis and the Heads will play instead is al yet unbeknownst to The Crimson. Bryce Springsteen is also expected to play in the area this summer...