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Siegel and his associates incubated the soil in a hostile ammoniac atmosphere, and fed it with a nutrient broth. Within weeks, there appeared a strange microorganism, umbrella-shaped, with radiating spokes and a stalk terminating in a bulb. Though unfamiliar with anything like it, Siegel noted that the organism flourished amid conditions resembling the ammonia-laden atmosphere that probably prevailed on earth when the earliest forms of life were developing, some 3 billion years...
...welcomed Iraq to the Egypto-Jordanian alliance against Israel, and proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face." Fixed in their own routine, the residents of Nasser's capital listened to the unfamiliar sound of the siren and continued?for a time?to go about their business...
...could troubleshoot an M-16 much faster than I could an M-14," says Lieut. Colonel Henry Miller, chief of Army heavy maintenance in Saigon. Many Marines in the battle above Khe Sanh had been issued their M-16s only a few days before the fight, and were probably unfamiliar with the weapon's demands: constant lubrication, thorough wire-brush reaming of the barrel to prevent leading, "fire discipline" that limits bursts to two or three rounds at a crack...
...concert's most attractive feature was a program devoted to music of the twentieth century--and there wasn't a chestnut within hearing. Some of the works were by composers whose names are quite unfamiliar (Maurice Ohana and Alexandre Hrisanide); others were of more familiar authorship but were themselves infrequently performed works...
Transcending Orthodoxy. Agnon's stubborn tenancy of the past sets formidable obstacles before the Gentile reader, or before anyone unfamiliar and unconcerned with Jewish tradition. His prose is majestically-at times annoyingly-Talmudic and is not easily translated from the Hebrew. Nor is his spirit, which is strongly flavored with Hasidism, an 18th century Jewish movement with strong emotional appeal to an oppressed and homeless people. Hasidism urged Jews to find joy in prayer and in their lot-an antidote to the despairs of exile. The existence of the State of Israel has helped dissipate the Hasidic appeal...