Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle was primarily between the President and the controllers, the general public was a much involved third party. An unsettling question formed in millions of minds: Just how safe are the skies when substitute controllers?and, eventually, military specialists unfamiliar with generally heavier civilian air traffic?are manning the towers and scopes? In addition, how long could the supervisors stand the strain...
...costly remedies. To halt coastal erosion, dikes will have to be built, and a steadily rising water table may require protection for monuments like the Temple of Karnak. It will be still more difficult to get the 100,000 Nubians displaced by the big lake to adapt to the unfamiliar life of settled farmers on newly arable lands. But even with these problems, Mancy, who first gazed lovingly on the Nile as a youth in Cairo, remains enthusiastic. "Would I build the dam again?" he asks rhetorically. "I would...
There is never much doubt that this worst will happen, that these bedraggled survivors will regain some of the "cleverness" that almost destroyed them before. Riddley's narrative generates a different kind of suspense: the fascination of watching a strange world evolve out of unfamiliar words. Impoverished as it is Riddley's language can still generate unexpected riches. People in trouble are "living on burrow time." Two of the sciences that the nuclear "barms" wiped out are "chemistery and fizzics." When a person is trying to think amid too much noise he complains of "inner fearents." Riddley sometimes...
...adhere to the liturgical beliefs of his father, but he refuses the blandishments of Stalin's comrades, many of whom will later perish in the Gulag. On his way to Paris, he rides through Germany eating matzohs and looking numbly through train windows at German flags displaying an unfamiliar design: the swastika...
...prospect of two years in an unfamiliar and remote country does not faze her in the least, although she cites two concerns that have plagued Peace Corps volunteer for years. "It's going to be hard to leave my boyfriend," she says. "And its very difficult for my parents that I'm going away for two years to a place that can't be reached by telephone." She shrugs and adds. "But my mother tells me I'm probably safer in Gabon than in New York City...