Word: unfamiliar
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Competing in an elite international triathlon is difficult enough when it’s only three stages long. But add on a grueling test of endurance—and patience—in an unfamiliar airport and the event transcends mere sport, as rising Harvard junior Jenna Shoemaker recently learned...
...crew this unfamiliar with losing will never grow accustomed to finishing any less than first. And while it would have been nice for Harvard’s first varsity eight and its seven seniors to walk away from their final race with a win, the Crimson won’t be beating itself up over a second-place finish...
Reagan took the vote as a mandate for an "era of national renewal" that he proposed to achieve by some unfamiliar methods: tax cuts, budget cuts, less regulation, less welfare. But before he could even begin to achieve anything like that, he had to endure the shattering attack by John Hinckley, a reasonably prosperous and reasonably well-educated young man whose only motive for murder was his desire to impress a movie actress whom he had never met, Jodie Foster. It was Reagan's luck that five of the six bullets missed him, but one apparently ricocheted...
...Saturday night, the Crimson was also forced to acknowledge the unfamiliar role of spoiler that it would fill for the rest of the season...
...News and World Report rankings for engineering programs, Harvard finds itself in an unfamiliar place: 19th...