Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University will allow the city to use many of its handicapped-accessible buildings on election day, a fact that makes voting more convenient for many Harvard affiliates. However, many of the undergraduate houses have been assigned to new precincts with unfamiliar voting locations...
...innocence, to the raw emotions of an 18-year-old boy as he says goodbye to his father at the Minneapolis train station and sets off on an odyssey that will take him, in carefully prearranged steps, to bombing raids over Okinawa. Along the way, the provincial Midwesterner discovers unfamiliar places in his native land: Denton, Texas; Athens, Ga.; Memphis and air stations scattered along the coasts of Florida and California. He and the friends he acquires learn to fly planes, the machines and the maneuvers growing increasingly complex: "Sometimes I had secret doubts: would I ever be ready? Would...
From the unfriendly streets of New Haven to the unfamiliar barns of Canton, N.Y., to the friendlier confines of Soldiers Field, the Crimson was in triumph this weekend. Five Harvard teams captured titles in each of their respective sports. As Al Davis would say, "Just win, baby...
...providing clarity, the split verdicts from Iowa and New Hampshire have left four strong Democrats in the race, each of whom can aspire to roughly one-quarter of the March 8 delegate harvest. Michael Dukakis, who scored a firm but not flashy 36% New Hampshire victory, heads into the unfamiliar terrain of Dixie as the leading white liberal in the race. Jesse Jackson, of course, should corral almost all the black vote. By finishing second in New Hampshire, with 20%, Richard Gephardt demonstrated that his nativist trade policies and his fiery mock-populist rhetoric resonate with blue-collar voters across...
...President-elect will face the task of forming a Government, a job infinitely more important than campaigning, but a bit boring. Most of the huge media caravan will go back to covering social and economic battles and natural calamities. Stories on the nightly news will recite unfamiliar names, vague accounts of struggles for favor and repetitive rumors of anointment. There will be no balloons and bands. Constructing a Government is a gritty business...