Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without raising an army of followers; he has created a style without founding a school. He stands alone, as solitary as his bronze image (see color) rising above a lonely Scottish moor, as unique as one of his strong and sweepingly molded figures of wood or stone, recognizable yet unfamiliar, warm yet discomfiting, partly abstract and groping for answers to the mystery: What...
...Iceland, the gleaming Boeing 707 jet transport, emblazoned u.s. AIR FORCE, peacefully cruised eastbound above the sandy beaches of Baltic Latvia toward the heart of the Soviet Union. With Russian officers peering over the shoulders of American pilots, with its distinguished passengers at the windows looking down upon unfamiliar landscape, the jet flew on across the great Russian plain, the jagged pattern of Russian farm fields, an occasional blue lake and great patches of green forest, until it let down through a blur of urban haze for a smooth landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport...
...movie is bound to evoke interest and curiosity. The public will ever have a curiosity as to what goes on behind convent walls. The life of a nun will forever be a mystery to most; and this film gives a sensitive and dignified interpretation. For those unfamiliar with Roman Catholic ritual, many of the ceremonies will appear impressive. To those unfamiliar with religious life, much of the metamorphosis from girl of the world to cloistered nun will appear distasteful. Perhaps there is negative emphasis here. Convent life appears as a series of "cannots" and a continual warfare against human nature...
...than 15 minutes, was hard put to read the reports that began piling up on his desk, made frequent trips to U.S. military installations around the world when he might better have spent more time in his office. Presenting the defense budget to Congress this year, he seemed distressingly unfamiliar with important details of one of the world's most complex jobs, made several inept slips, e.g., he said the first U.S. ICBMs would be operational in July 1959, when in fact the target date was January 1960. Moreover, McElroy undermined his own Washington prestige by confirming rumors that...
Shanghai was soon laughing condescendingly at jokes about Communist peasant soldiers washing their hands and faces in unfamiliar toilet bowls...