Higgins, 35 years old, said he did not expect problems or approach the unusual assignment with trepidation.

He'd just spent the morning on one of his more unusual assignments - photographing pigs with a 'food ball'.

I am asking you for assurance that these men are capable of handling this unusual assignment.

The first part of Harry Vincent's unusual assignment was completed.

It takes about 10 days to get the vessels ready for the unusual assignment.

"Bill Gray comes from a family of educators, so he's not going to an unusual assignment."

Contemporaries and historians alike have wondered at this unusual assignment.

Yes, but then the Americans had been faced with an unusual and extraordinary assignment.

Few officers will take unusual assignments or publish controversial ideas.

It's an unusual environment and an unusual assignment, after all.