Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some sprightliness by Life, was ground to a fine, dry powder, and in only a few sentences at that. This, however, is only the most notorious example of the book's sterility. For the editors of 321 there seemed to be no mean between the matter-of-fact and outlandish gaucherie. Perhaps the only attempt at literary imagination had to do with the Radcliffe girl. It was apparently a parody of stream-of-consciousness writing and involved the endless repetition of the phrase "faces in the crowd...
...Sydney Harbor to help Australia celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea (May 7, 1942), its 2,970 officers and men were blithely unaware of one important matter: the University of Sydney would hold its annual Commemoration Day festivities, when students stage zany parades, pull off outlandish pranks, and badger citizens for donations to charity. Last week the proud Bennington became the victim of the most ignominious fate of all-capture by "pirates...
Bailey and the show's staff of 30 usually manage to fulfill every queen's wish, no matter how outlandish. (One notable failure: "World peace.") The show hires detective agencies to run down lost children, once sent a winner to barber's college. "One lady wished for an electric eel," says Bailey. "She wanted, to make a broth for her son to help his asthma." Without asking any questions, the show tracked down an eel and delivered...
...talent into exploring the offbeat byways of color and anecdote as well as the lofty heights of analysis and interpretation. Ironically, some of the best punditry came not from Chicago but from Washington, where Columnist Walter Lippmann watched the convention on TV. Some of the sidebars ran to outlandish trivia, e.g., the contents of Adlai Stevenson's laundry bag, but some of it reached new levels of excellence. For entertainment, few reporters could equal the New York Herald Tribune's wisecracking Sports Columnist Red Smith, who dealt with the convention like an athletic contest, sprinkled his copy with...
Though Asia is scarred with the earth's most challenging peaks, few Asians consider climbing a sport. To them, the exploits of such men as Sir Edmund Hillary are part of an outlandish philosophy; they would never climb Everest simply "because it is there." Often enough in the high Himalayas, devout Buddhists scramble and scratch their way to the top of middling high peaks-but for a perfectly practical reason: those who make such a pilgrimage earn unlimited credit in the eyes of their gods...