Word: unfamiliarly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's swimming team returned from Puerto Rico early last week tanned and tired. So for a change of pace Coach Maura Costin Scalise placed most of her swimmers in unfamiliar events in the squad's meet with Dartmouth at Blodgett Pool Saturday afternoon...
...unfamiliar faces have invaded Eliot House this weekend, and they're all carrying ice skates--not to skate in the courtyard, but to help raise money for young cancer patients...
...speeches and band music, the Germans, who were honored guests, and the American men of the same age who had been MPs at the prison camp, and a few old townspeople who remembered those days tried to say exactly why this reunion meant so much to them. Using an unfamiliar language, as some tried to do, was not really the problem. It was that the situation was unusual, and the ordinary formulas of memory and friendship did not quite...
Dahl, 6 ft., 6 in. tall, then found himself cramped in the cockpit of a Tiger Moth in Nairobi, Kenya, where he had enlisted in the R.A.F. After training, he was given an unfamiliar Gloster Gladiator and wrong directions to fly to a base in the Libyan Desert. He ran out of gas, crashed and spent six months recovering in Egypt. By the time he got back in the air, this time in a spiffy new Hurricane over Greece, the Luftwaffe dominated the skies. Dahl piloted one of a dozen planes sent up to meet some 200 enemy aircraft...
...tough homecoming last week. The man who reigned as president of BankAmerica from 1970 until his retirement in 1981 was back, this time as chairman, in his old offices on the 40th floor of the company's San Francisco headquarters building. There he was confronted by an unfamiliar and sobering array of corporate and financial problems. Clausen, however, did not seem unduly worried. Said he: "We are going in the right direction. I'm here to accelerate the pace...