Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roll, both of which abound in European record stores, are Portuguese fados, Neapolitan tenors, Scots pipers, Spanish flamencos, German beer songs, French chanteuses, Welsh miners, nightclub and music-hall performers, tin ny little village bands and Tyrolean yodelers. There are even some familiar U.S. singers (and songs) in unfamiliar languages...
Early-bird students must have been at Lamont, because very few people actually checked out books. It made a quiet day for the Pinkerton man hired as a door security guard--he mostly gave directions to the people gliding around in the unfamiliar surroundings...
Tufts, today's opponent, boasts its strongest team in ten years, and could challenge the Crimson which, according to Munro, is not yet ready to open with an unfamiliar system...
...Viet Cong know the customs of the people, speak their language, and come from the people, while the U.S. soldier is unfamiliar with the culture and bound to make mistakes which can be exaggerated to feed anti-American sentiment...
...from judgeships, professorships, political appointments, big corporate firms and affluent clients. Even injured Negroes usually prefer white lawyers because they get more money from white juries. As a result, most important rights cases are directed by non-Southern lawyers, who for all their frequent zeal and skill, are often unfamiliar with the procedural obstacles thrown up by segregated justice...