Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing on the artificial turf at Cornell also proved a difficult challenge for the Crimson. The fast-paced turf game was an unfamiliar one for Harvard, which practiced this week on Ohiri Field--a natural grass site made even slower with the wet conditions...
...Embarrassing, but funny" said John P. Siracuse '87 of the strip-a-gram his roommates sent him for his 22nd birthday. Siracuse, who was attending a formal dinner in the Winthrop House Junior Common room when the stripper entered, said he was very surprised when the unfamiliar woman walked up to his table...
...acting President is not unfamiliar with hisrole, having once filled in for Bok when thePresident took the summer off in 1983 to traveland write
...scholarly and fastidiously chosen group of 19th century American paintings assembled over the past two decades by Jo Ann and Julian Ganz Jr.; Robert Rifkind's superb conspectus of German expressionist paintings, sculpture, prints and posters, remarkable for its depth and its number of first-rate works by unfamiliar names as well as obvious greats; the collections of post-1945 American art put together by Robert Rowan, Marcia Weisman and her ex-husband Frederick Weisman; anthologies of big-ticket contemporary work bought in a few years by Douglas Cramer and Eli Broad; smaller and more concentrated collections owned by Steve...
...last November, Mikhail Gorbachev made his first visit as Communist Party leader to Soviet Central Asia. At Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, Gorbachev gave a speech to local party officials on such familiar problems as economic inefficiency and official corruption. But at one point his address took a distinctly unfamiliar turn. According to the Uzbek daily Pravda Vostoka, Gorbachev called for a "firm and uncompromising struggle against religious phenomena." Then he said, "We must be strict above all with Communists and senior officials, particularly those who say they defend our morality and ideals but in fact help promote backward views...