Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brandeis riddled the varsity hopefuls with an arsenal of unorthodox ground strokes to score a stunning 6-2 upset on the unfamiliar hardcourt surfaces at Brandeis...
...Uttal is also fine as Tolen, the man who has the knack (with women, for those unfamiliar with the work). Uttal stoutly maintains the rhythm of his characterization while much around him dribbles away to incoherence...
...White House, there was an unaccustomed air of casualness, an unfamiliar atmosphere of tranquillity. President Johnson went through the normal busy week-a state dinner for Norway's King Olav, a jet excursion to Illinois, the appointment of a new ambassador to the U.N. But something was missing, some factor had disappeared from the unique Johnsonian equation. Both the shock and euphoria that followed the President's March 31 abdication speech had disappeared, and the Johnson Administration was slowly, inexorably winding down toward its self-set demise on January...
THERE are people who have seen Halley's Comet more often than they have seen a play in the Eliot House dining hall. The mere fact that someone has cared enough to mount a show in such unfamiliar surroundings automatically exempts the production from easy sneers about the House's obsession with prep schools and Straus Trophies...
...probability, McCurdy wasn't too suprised by Providence's showing. After all, this was the same Bill McCurdy who once claimed "It might help running an unfamiliar course. When you don't know the course, you don't know you're supposed to get tired." Besides, this wasn't the first time that a McCurdy coached team had fallen to the Friars. On past occasions, McCurdy, always gracious in defeat, had a ready explanation for the Friars' dominance. "They had the Holy Father out there as well as the team," the retired lieutenant colonel of the United States Army Reserve...