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Sophomore Doug Hall courageously left his slot in the scrum to pinch hit, but unfamiliar with the position and hampered by a shoulder injury, he found it difficult to catch the ball. On a wet day, the teams tend to kick much more, bringing the opposing fullbacks into important roles. Thus, inexperience worked to Princeton's advantage...
...Apologies. As the argument about the reporting from Viet Nam continued, the Hotel Caravelle's eighth-floor bar, which serves as an unofficial Saigon press club, began to fill up with unfamiliar faces. The visiting observers found resident newsmen in a fighting mood, quick to defend their every dispatch. U.S. officials have constantly lied to them, they said, and the U.S. embassy has shunned them for years. They play up gripes from junior officers in the field but consider General Paul Harkins, Commander of the U.S. Forces in South Viet Nam, too evasive for his statements to be taken...
Cardullo's comfortable interior is organized for browsing. Each area of the world has its own department, and in most cases the unfamiliar items outnumber the familiar. Still, however strange they look to American eyes, they are commonplace in the countries from which they come; few things are carried simply because they are odd. Cardullo's knows that that chocolate covered ants and fried grasshoppers -- those staples of run-of-the-mill "exotic" food stores -- do not a delicatessen make...
Burwell ran with the leaders for the first three miles before fading into the pack. The other Crimson runners showed little over the unfamiliar, hilly 4.1-mile course at Franklin Park...
...philosophy of education, "leave the future teacher with the most dangerous of misunderstandings: that he knows what he is talking about when, in fact, he does not." Worse, Conant found in college after college that "members of a subject-matter department (English or chemistry, for example) were totally unfamiliar with what was going on in the schools and couldn't care less." The same went for supervision of practice teaching in "even the best institutions...