Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Hallinan begins serving his term, he will not be in a totally unfamiliar environment. In 1952 he spent five months in jail on a contempt-of-court sentence incurred as defense counsel in the perjury trial of West Coast Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Informal meetings of the Council-elect resulted in the selection of Colonel John B. Atkinson: "born and raised" in Cambridge, "long prominent in the shoe business," "war hero," and totally unfamiliar with professional city managing. Atkinson's office gave him broad powers. Most important was his power to initiate budgetary matters for Council consideration...
...program in London was chosen to underline the company's age and traditions. It began with a gay trifle called The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master, and moved on through an unabashedly romantic La Sylphide (1832), in which a forest witch vamps a young Scot (to unfamiliar music by Hermann Lovenskjold). The piece offered a show-stopping Scottish dance and was full of good-humored stage tricks (a sylph vanishes, later is seen flying up into the rafters). The modern ballet (1942) was Qarrtsiluni, by Knudage Riisager, a tom-tom-thumping, gyrating Eskimo rite...
...place was different, the names unfamiliar, but the ritual was the same. Instead of Czechoslovakia or Poland, it was North Korea; instead of Slansky or Gomulka, it was Lee Sung Yup. Last week the voice of Radio Moscow, which has tolled doom for hundreds of topdog Communists, called the roll of 12 more-North Koreans who "confessed" that they had spied and plotted on behalf of the U.S. and South Korea to overthrow Premier Kim II Sung and install a "new capitalistic government" in pitted, desolate North Korea...
Though still far and away the world's leading shipmaker, Britain has already begun to feel the pinch from some unfamiliar competition. At the end of June, she had orders for 900 ships, but her share of the world market has shrunk from 53% in 1946 to under 30% last year, largely because of the fast increase in shipbuilding in Japan and Germany...