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...backfield, the team has generally better depth than in the line. Furthermore, most of this team's backs have had T-formation experience while in other years the freshman backs have had to be initiated into an unfamiliar offensive system...
...report blaming Russia for smashing Hungarian independence, or that Ceylon was one of the five signing nations. Afterwards, he explained that he knew the name of India's Prime Minister, but he could not pronounce Jawaharlal. And the name of the Prime Minister of Ceylon "is a bit unfamiliar now; I cannot call...
Pivot of the turnabout was Arkansas' hardworking, international-minded Brooks Hays, whose plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt...
...slim six-footer at the bar had an unfamiliar face, but to the gamblers in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, he looked like an all right guy. He thumbed his racing form with professional elan and flashed a horse-choking roll of bills when he placed a bet or got quarters for the slot machines. These were such solid credentials that the gamblers never bothered to ask who the stranger...
...world over, but because Nationalist China and the United States have never negotiated a status-of-forces agreement for the 2,000 American military men on Formosa, soldiers in effect enjoy extraterritorial rights. So Chinese newspapermen, covering a murder case unrelated to military action, found themselves in the unfamiliar atmosphere of an army court-martial. They did not like...