Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excitement is the transformation that is occurring in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček, 46, who only in January ousted Antonín Novotný as boss of the country's Communist Party. Last week Czechoslovakia's 14,300,000 people were reading news that was as unfamiliar as it was welcome...
...fact is that Harvard track, on the verge of winning national recognition, is quickly joining crew and squash as a Harvard prestige sport. For McCurdy and his team, it's an unfamiliar position. Though few realize, the Crimson was once the Goliath of American track--back in the days that history books call the Golden Age of Harvard track...
...long-awaited Harvard-Yale extravaganza finally took place in 1875. The game was played in New Haven and through some ingenious "compromise"--characteristic of this University's administrators--Harvard's rugby rules reigned. Harvard dominated the contest, taking full advantage of Yale's inexperience with an unfamiliar manly sport. The Harvard Advocate, a student periodical, summarized Yale's performance in the following words: "They showed very little discipline on the field, the different players not seeming to know their positions, and above all, failing in almost every instance to back each other up properly...
...first, the Marines found the going not only tough but unfamiliar, since they had to retake the streets almost house by house. "The first two days, it was a matter of learning this sort of thing," said one Marine commander, Colonel Ernest Cheatham. "The Marines haven't fought a fight like this since Seoul, back in 1950." As more and more blocks fell to the Marines, they commandeered brightly colored Honda motorcycles, small buses and cars, to ferry themselves back and forth to the action...
...recent plans, if fully enacted, would give students more academic responsibility. Fourth-course pass-fail may entice students to experiment in unfamiliar fields. And Master Chalmers has proposed that students should be allowed to devise their own fields of concentration under the direction of an ad hoc committee if the existing fields do not fit their interests. The idea is not a new one, but its acceptance would be. Interdisciplinary study, despite its success in specific projects at Harvard and M.I.T.'s research centers, is strangely threatening to some departments. Educational theorists, such as David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, explain...