Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This spring the noise level has been up. Even Gooden has heard the unfamiliar sound of cowhide meeting ash. But then, hitters forget every winter and have to be reminded every summer who the pitchers are. A young fellow named Floyd Youmans had a bright spring for Montreal and has pitched his way into the starting rotation. Maybe the best pitcher in baseball should dig up a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. There could be Strikeout games this summer...
Once, she and Johnny Campo Jr. were the only juveniles tolerated on the grounds at Belmont, where in the late '60s her mother was the sole female groom. Suddenly widowed, Cornelia Hayward elected this hard and unfamiliar work out of a vague affection for horses, picked up during her girlhood in Saratoga Springs. But mostly it was a way of keeping Katrina with her all the time: they rose together at 4 and went off to brush the horses...
...other companies are rolling along in the opposite direction. Dollar Rent a Car announced last week that it will put 6,000 phone-equipped cars on the road by May. Dollar hopes to attract business with a new phone service called Pathfinder. When driving in unfamiliar places, customers will be able to dial a single digit and reach a Dollar operator, who will consult a battery of maps and give directions. Budget Rent a Car will soon equip a fleet of 1,500 autos with portable phones that can be operated outside the car and are small enough...
...PARTY is a welcome contrast to the less exposed tenures of previous deans. While John Fox never turned down an invitation to speak anywhere, his critics complained that he was unreceptive. Fox was perhaps one of the last administrators any student got to know, and his face was often unfamiliar...
...Safety Commission, hospital emergency rooms in 1984 treated people for 18,000 injuries related to exercise equipment. Almost half the mishaps occurred at home. In addition to the danger of injury, there is the risk of wasting money on unneeded glitz or extras. Women, in particular, tend to be unfamiliar with exercise devices. "If I say dipping station to women, they haven't a clue as to what that is," says Marilyn Mitchell, a fitness specialist in the Washington area. (It is a set of parallel bars used to build upper-body strength.) Sometimes their decisions seem dictated more...