Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current series of advertisements, F. Lee Bailey has been speaking up for the quality of his favorite vodka. Last week the noted Boston attorney found himself speaking instead for the quality of his sobriety and doing it in an unfamiliar place: the witness stand. On trial for drunken driving in San Francisco, Bailey faced a vigorous prosecution featuring seven police witnesses. Such cases usually take three days; Bailey's is in its third week. Fumed the defendant: "It's being tried like a murder case. It's a cause celebre." The hardball prosecution is one example-though...
...formidable Ivy opponent over the past few seasons, and should again provide for major obstacle at a Crimson victory in both tournaments. But Crosby predicts a top-flight showing by freshmen Chet Nastala and Ted Marcis, who both impressed him in the GBCs with strong second rounds on an unfamiliar Concord Country Club course. "We have a good chance to win the Ivies," he says...
...adjust to some of the losses, Wentzell is sending several players to unfamiliar positions. Last year's second baseman Alissa Friedman is now the leftfielder: Co-Captain Marlene Schools moved from first base to fill the spot Bernstein vacated at short, and Landya Boyer, formerly a reserve shortstop, will start at first this afternoon...
...diluted of all sharpness, and my own staff bounced it back again and again for greater precision-thereby serving the bureau chiefs purposes better than my own. Alternatively, the machinery may permit a strategically placed official's hobbyhorse to gallop through, eliciting an innocent nod from a Secretary unfamiliar with all the code words and implications...
Most people can understand the problem of declining government assistance. But to those unfamiliar with Harvard's labyrinthine financial structure it is difficult to comprehend why an institution with more than a billion dollars invested in stocks and bonds can't rely more on income from those investments to offset costs...