Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they meet him on a back-country road, trudging along with an oddly catlike grace, wearing an old blue denim jacket and blue sneakers. They recognize the heavy, big-knuckled hand shaped to axhelve and pitchfork, the heavy shoulders hunched to the swing of a scythe. Vermonters find nothing outlandish or alarming about Robert Frost...
Based originally on the familiar parlor game, Truth or Consequences has made nonsense of the questions (sample: "What was the largest island in the world before Australia was discovered?" Answer: "Australia"), and concentrated on outlandish penalties. But Edwards shrewdly mixes the humiliation of contestants with what he calls the "good-gesture type of act" involving "a personal rehabilitation or something along that line." One projected good gesture: the televised reunion of a wounded Korean war veteran and his mother...
...advance. By the time the last stage show is over the house is packed and noisy, waiting for Harlem's No. 1 amateur show. 'The fun really begins when bouncy, bright-eyed Stagehand Norman ("Puerto Rico") Miller appears, dressed up in one of a roomful of outlandish costumes, and brandishing the prop pistol he uses to chase unsuccessful amateurs offstage...
...their passionately partisan study of Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt, Authors Charles Wayland Towne (retired publicity director for Anaconda Copper) and Edward Norris Wentworth (director of Armour's Livestock Bureau) make it clear that a pork packer as Uncle Sam's prototype is not too outlandish an idea. "More than any other commodity," say the authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing city in the world, a distinction it lost...
During the past 24 months I have reviewed 400 sets of blueprints of Protestant church building plans of 30 denominations from every state in the U.S. Not six of them are of the type of outlandish "architecture" illustrated...