Word: unfamiliar
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...Basketball Team as they traveled into the depths of anonymity—New Britain, Connecticut—for a formidable non-conference tilt against the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils.Never heard of the school? Neither had I. Never heard of New Britain? Join the club.To enlighten those unfamiliar with this great city and worthy university, Central Connecticut State, or CCSU for short, is the oldest public university in Connecticut, was founded in 1849, enrolls almost 13,000 students, has a freakishly good running back in Justise Hairtson (participated in the Hula Bowl all-star game last month), and procures some...
...Beijing bureau back in 2001 was that they were wearing new shirts. With callused hands and dirt under their fingernails, these men were trying to blend in with the well-dressed crowds in China's capital. But one look and you could tell they were poor peasants in unfamiliar city clothes. Their shirts all had identical shirt-box creases. One peasant, an apple grower named Liang Yumin, tugged at his neck throughout our conversation, fingering the piece of cardboard still tucked under his collar...
...TIME: You've said you intend to move towards a more consensual style of politics. That would be unfamiliar in this country...
...David Cameron: It has been unfamiliar for the last few decades because there was a great division between the parties. When I grew up in the 1980s, there was this great division between the center right and the left. We wanted to be part of NATO and to deploy cruise missiles. They wanted to leave NATO and unilaterally disarm. We wanted to privatize state-run industries. They wanted to nationalize the top 100 companies. We wanted to reform the trade unions. They wanted to give more power to the trade unions. There were huge, ideological divisions. That has changed. With...
...boarding school, David Cameron, 40, the leader of Britain's Conservative Party, lacks sharp angles. His telegenic appeal has propelled the Tories to a consistent lead in opinion polls for the first time since Tony Blair's 1997 victory. That has infused Britain's Conservatives with a sensation so unfamiliar, they barely recognize it: optimism. Giddy at this turn of fortune, some are already mythologizing the man behind it. Iain Dale, who writes a Conservative blog, speaks of Cameron's "Kennedyesque glamour." Cameron and his wife Samantha - the daughter of a baronet, who sports a tattoo of a dolphin...