Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because of a satellite problem, were hopelessly overtaxed. A major difficulty was the zeal of the ground scientists, about 200 researchers from Europe, the U.S., Canada and Japan, who have worked up to five years or more on their experiments. As they bombarded the astronauts with commands, often in unfamiliar accents and at times absentmindedly reversing earlier instructions, the irritation of the spacemen rose. Snapped Mission Specialist Bob Parker: "I think you might be quiet until we get one or the other [experiment] done...
...Padan Aram reading series, on the other hand, is-designed also for people unfamiliar with the magazine. "Let's face it," Wachtel said. "There are a lot of people who don't really read literary magazines. This series is presented to reach them as well...
Nearly 30,000 Cantabrigians found an alternative to expensive and unfamiliar health care in nine city-run neighborhood health clinics last year...
Second, emotionalism serves as a vent to frustrated emotions. Politicized violence and riots often act more as therapy than as practical initiative. For an oppressed person in Roxbury or the Third World, free speech is an unfamiliar abstraction. But the opportunity to stand up and redeem one's worth as a human being through militant or violent action...
...even with those eight, some unfamiliar names will be skating on the four lines this winter. One very good candidate is freshman Allen Bourbeau, a local star who was probably the leading high school player in the country last year. He started at center in Harvard's scrimmage loss to Boston College and its 11-2 rout at the hands of the Olympic squad...