Word: unfamiliar
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Other newly elected members to the society were unfamiliar with the organization before being elected, but said they were still very pleased...
...power surge is unfamiliar for Thoke. She had only one career home run coming into this season...
...This is indeed unfamiliar to the Jewish nation, having spent 2000 years in a position of statelessness. But Jews’ finally having power to defend themselves is nothing to mourn. Israel faces the challenge of using military power to protect its citizens in a moral way, considering the realities of a complex world. We must judge Israel’s decisions on this basis, and not dismiss its claims simply because it is the more powerful party in this particular conflict...
...officials. An innovative, full-scale federally funded program run by the Chicago Department of Aging kicked off in 1995 with a few hundred seniors for whom a pricey health club was out of the question. Former director Alisa Markoff says that despite some initial glitches--in the beginning, women unfamiliar with the idea of working out showed up for classes in dresses and high heels--the program now teaches 7,000 participants in more than 50 facilities, for free. Keiser, the leading manufacturer of air-pressurized machines geared to the senior market, has grown from 20 facilities...
...addition, much of the time that they are away from the feared object or situation is spent dreading the next encounter and developing elaborate strategies intended to avoid it. "Jeanette," 44, a teacher's assistant, is so terrified of cats that she sends her daughter, 21, into an unfamiliar store to scout around and sound a feline all clear before she enters. The daughter has been walking point this way since age five. "Nora," 50, a social worker, will circumnavigate a block with a series of right turns rather than make a single left, so afraid is she of facing...