Word: unfamiliar
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...with contemporary and conceptual art like STASH. It helps to have a...base [of] knowledge, a reference to what you’re looking at and what has previously been done in the area. So I think it’s harder for someone who’s completely unfamiliar to look at the exhibit with an open mind, and I think it’s a more unusual show for Harvard...
...Sometimes, the plan seems unfathomable. A 60-year-old woman from Zhengzhou says Lightning devotees invited her to teach the Bible in their homes last year. They drove her to an unfamiliar village and presented her with a screaming and trembling man. They instructed her to cast out his devil. She couldn't. Then a Lightning follower prayed and sure enough the devil vanished, proving the woman's God was false, they said. Frightened, she acknowledged that her God seemed less powerful. Still, they held her nine more days, until her minister tracked her down and sought the police...
...efforts seem a bit frantic, it may be because the bureau is stumbling along an unfamiliar path. Moving from prosecuting crimes with rock-solid evidence to preventing crimes with hardly any evidence necessitates a cultural shift. "The FBI's instinct is to guard intelligence that is turned up during the course of an investigation, because by making it public, they're potentially destroying their case," says L. Paul Bremer, chairman of Congress's National Commission on Terrorism...
...breezy, brisk morning last spring, as Dan Whitener was tying down his single-engine plane at the Martin Campbell Airport in the tiny mining town of Copperhill, Tenn., an unfamiliar airplane landed. Two Middle Eastern-looking men climbed out, and the shorter one quizzed Whitener. "So, tell me about this chemical plant I just flew over...
...current, very unfamiliar situation, there?s little doubt about whether to proceed with an investigation. Do we need to investigate our colossal intelligence failures that led to September 11th? Of course we do, But this shouldn?t be just a blame rain dance, where the Beltway types just move the same problems from one box into another...