Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came out playing flat," Harvard coach Debi Field said last night. "We mistakes, and they were really psyched." The unfamiliar astroturf surface and lights of Franklin Field added to the Crimson's woes, Field added...
...outcome for the 3-9-1 booters--for freshman goalie Peter Walsh, who played an outstanding game, making two point-blank saves at the opening of the second half; for Langton, who Ford said "held the team together"; and for Lee Nelson, who played an aggressive game at an unfamiliar halfback position...
...this, the University doesn't really know what to do. Epps has said he is not a legal expert and will probably confer with Steiner. Steiner, when asked whether he had read any of the decisions, said he had not and did not plan to. He said he was unfamiliar with the cases and had no opinion about them...
Pitchford's story is sad and scarcely unfamiliar. She and her boyfriend, Dwight Mundy, 26, both students at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, were talking about getting married. But Pitchford was afraid to tell Mundy she was pregnant. When she did he told her he did not want the child. On June 8 they traveled to Louisville to find a clinic that would perform an abortion. None would handle a pregnancy beyond 18 weeks. In the bathroom of their hotel room, Pitchford inserted a six-inch knitting needle into her uterus. "I just wasn't thinking rationally...
Amis also shows a knack for presenting familiar poets in unfamiliar guises. He dutifully includes not only Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky but also a dead-on parody of Hiawatha: ("From his shoulder Hiawatha/ Took the camera of rosewood-/ Made of sliding, folding rosewood ..."). A.E. Housman's familiar Hellenic manner is turned inside out in his version of a hilariously mistranslated Greek tragedy: "O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots/ Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom/ Whence by what way how purposed art thou come...