Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meter individual medley to air a banal taped interview with her. Night after night, viewers saw just enough volleyball or water polo to frustrate them as they waited for something else, yet not enough context or start-to-finish action to convert them into enthusiasts of an unfamiliar sport...
...addition to the Quakers, Harvard will have to worry about playing on artificial turf, a faster surface unfamiliar to the team. In preparation for the game, the squad will practice on turf at Boston University this week...
Aristocratic Cuban exiles puzzle over the unfamiliar foods given to them as charity by some Dallas Presbyterians. A Southwest farm worker becomes obsessed with breeding the perfect fighting cock. A Manhattan drug dealer demands that his son stay off drugs -- or, if he must get high, that he do it in his father's company, at home. A Chicano woman struggles to bring to justice the Texas police chief who murdered her common-law husband...
While clubs affected by the ruling begin to grapple with the unfamiliar business of admitting women, a number of other male bastions not directly affected are bracing for the next round of challenges. The top targets: exclusionary country clubs and golf courses. The famed Burning Tree Club in Bethesda, Md., for instance, does not allow women to set foot on its greens as either members or guests. For the record, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is an avid golfer...
...designed to save lives, has gone awry. In medical centers and hospitals across the country, disorganized, underfunded and understaffed emergency services are on the critical list. In Chicago not long ago, a fire-department rescue team rushed a 19-year-old gunshot victim to a nearby hospital emergency room unfamiliar with such cases. Within hours the patient, who had been alert and in satisfactory condition, began to fail. The hospital staff, unable to respond adequately, belatedly asked the Cook County Hospital trauma unit to take the patient. On his arrival at the facility, some five hours after first receiving medical...