Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfamiliar kind of quake has shaken California: recession. Sometimes considered immune to economic woes, the nation's most populous state suffered an 11.2% unemployment rate in October, close to half a point higher than the national average in November. In 1978 the Golden State sunned itself in the warmth of a $3.7 billion state budget surplus, but now it is projected to be more than $ 1 billion in the red before the fiscal year ends on June 30. Last month California had to take out $400 million in bank loans just to pay ongoing bills, and has ceased selling...
Shortly after he awoke last Thursday morning in Salt Lake City, Barney Clark recognized the familiar sight and voice of his wife Una Loy, who was near by. There was also an unfamiliar noise: a soft, rhythmical clicking coming from his chest. And he realized, to his surprise, that he was still alive...
...sunny, spring afternoon a few weeks later, holed up in a barn near Munich. Pisar peered through it crack and saw an enormous tank lumbering towards him. Instead of the hateful swastika, he saw an unfamiliar emblem: a small five-pointed white star. "Suddenly the realization flooded my mind that I was looking at freedom, the insignia of the American army. "Pisar recalls I ran towards it through the German machine-gun fire, and as a big Black G. I climbed out, swearing at me. I yelled Heil Roosevelt." He understood. He motioned me to move through the roof...
Most Asian students at Harvard are nearly as unfamiliar with Boston's Chinatown community as the thousands of tourists and Boston-area residents who go there each year for groceries, good food, or just to have a look around. Like other Harvard students. Asians can easily find enough classwork and campus activities to keep them busy in Cambridge. But a small group working through Harvard's Phillips Brooks House (PBH) have opted to involve themselves in a neighborhood whose problems often go unnoticed by outsiders...
...exclusive interview, fisherman Floyd Flintstong described his eye-to-eye confrontation with an unfamiliar periscope...